‘I feel like I’m failing’: Inside Canada’s family doctor crisisThe family medicine crisis has two sides, and profound consequences for us all.
Nick Purdon meets with an elderly patient in rural Ontario who’s been trying to find a family doctor for a year and an overwhelmed family physician who admits to missing things with her patients.
The shortage will increase by 1 million each year. That's the number of people we import from India and China each year.
No fingers pointed at the feds😳? Oh right, don’t bite the hand that feeds
For your next article could you find out why so few med students go for general practice/family medicine? Is it the compensation, the working conditions, the status? Using more nurse practitioners, etc. is great, but we need more GP doctors.
You know what would solve the problem? Allowing record number of newcomers into Canada!
if someone/something wanted to weaken society … affect health care
How many Canadian trained doctors leaves the country every year? And do we accept foreign students into the program? If we do, why?
LaurenPelley And many of us will get sick and or die needlessly due to issues not being discovered early enough
Yet the Liberals to increase immigration. This country is so bad ppl are dying to get to the US.
So then why is the plan to import another million immigrants who will need a family physician while simultaneously firing fully qualified doctors who refuse to take a fake vaccine that doesn't even work?
Let naturalpath doctors practice under OHIP
Quick, lets bring in another few million people to compete with Canadians
trudeau and friends knew it was broken and can never be fixed that’s why they promised the opposite. They’ve been behaving like that for years now. Just tell trudeau it’s for Ukraine or the globalists and I’m betting it’ll get fixed. He’s not going to help Canadians in any way!
I think we should therefore pay more carbon tax.
Start hiring tbe ones they fured
And how many millions more have a doctor who is over age 70 and will retire soon? We must make our medical schools more accessible!
GovCanHealth needs to invest heavy in a 'AI Triage Bot' - a virtual Nurse schooled in Canadian (western) medical practices that could provide so much relief to frontliners by 'interviewing' online patients ahead of Doctor visits. DrGPT
How many doctors could Ontario and Alberta fund with the $BILLIONS they stole from the healthcare transfers?
Politicians of every stripe and riding are undermining the health system at every turn. Fortunes are being made on the sore backs of the sick. Once a politician gets rich, it (sic) automatically gets a family doctor.
Yet Trudeau is bringing in a million more ppl every year. What could go wrong?