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Specialty sections: Mirroring medicine in the 21st century [3]
Specialty sections: Mirroring medicine in the 21st century [3]
Ms Lynch-Staunton’s goal in showing the cost of an appendectomy in 1957 vs today isn’t clear [BCMJ 2015;57:28-29 [3]]. If it is showing the growth in fees over the intervening time the mark is sorely missed. According to the Bank of Canada Inflation Calculator (www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/ [10]) the equivalent fee in 2015 would be $1253.36. Physicians’ fees, in real dollars, have indeed changed!
—Mark Masterson, MD
Kelowna
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[1] https://www.bcmj.org/node/5722
[2] https://www.bcmj.org/author/mark-f-masterson-md-msc-frcpc
[3] https://www.bcmj.org/issues/specialty-sections-mirroring-medicine-21st-century
[4] https://www.bcmj.org/sites/default/files/public/BCMJ_Vol57_No3_pv_4_1.pdf
[5] https://www.bcmj.org/print/letters/re-specialty-sections-mirroring-medicine-21st-century
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