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Why do specialists get paid so much and does something need to be done about it?

  • Written by Lesley Russell, Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
imageThe pay gap between specialists (including surgeons) and GPs in Australia is the largest in the world. Clement127/Flickr, CC BY-SA

This week the Medical Journal of Australia published a paper and commentary that highlighted the huge variation in specialists’ fees and the associated out-of-pocket costs for patients. High specialist fees in...

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