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Doctors' earnings, or about (not) looking into pockets

MedExpress Team

Małgorzata Solecka

Published Oct. 31, 2024 12:42

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Prime Minister Donald Tusk assures that he is the last person who would look into anyone's pocket and will remove from the government anyone who tried to do so. However, the topic of doctors' salaries - and, in fact, the contracts they enter into with hospitals - will not be off the agenda for a long time to come. It is up to both sides - the government and the doctors - to decide whether it will be a brawl, full of innuendo and fake news, or a substantive discussion. Doctors' forums and social media groups have been literally on fire for the past few days - all because of Tuesday's statement by Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna, who confirmed that one of the doctors had invoiced the hospital for a month's work to the tune of nearly 300,000 zlotys.

This fact had already been known for several weeks, and the topic had come up in many discussions - including on doctors' social media. And the tone of most of the statements could have been disturbing, even if one takes into account the fact that the medics speaking out are by no means representative of their community. However, two approaches prevailed. First, to cast doubt on the rumor, allegedly spread by the media (in an extreme version, as part of a sponsored - not sure by whom, implicitly by the MZ, by politicians - action against doctors). Second, one that can be summarized by travestying a classic: - That money was simply due to him. Because perhaps that's the market value of this docto...

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