Why $500,000 is not too much for a remote GP
The plight of Julia Creek in remote Queensland has reignited debate in the profession.
The GP founder of a major corporate says salaries of $500,000 are firmly within the expectations of city GPs to uproot their lives by moving to the outback.
Places like Julia Creek in outback Queensland have made headlines by offering the average income of a neurosurgeon to a GP who will move there permanently, having relied on locum GPs for a decade.
