CBC has confirmed there were 84 active family physician roles filled at 16 primary care clinics in Thunder Bay, Ont., and none of the facilities had a single family doctor accepting new patients from the general public.
A patient's struggle to access cancer care without a family doctorKrystal Shapland was diagnosed with breast cancer in June. She's determined to battle cancer and feels the odds of beating it are good — but finding a family doctor in Thunder Bay, Ont., is a fight she feels she can't win.
There are 188 doctors listed with the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons who specialize in family medicine and run a practice in Thunder Bay. Not all these practices are family medical clinics, and many practise at more than one place — the 188 doctors worked a total of 237 different positions.
Some family doctors in Thunder Bay serve specific populations. They include doctors at college, university or military health centres, and those in practices that solely serve citizens of First Nations. Four doctors in this category were accepting new patients, while six were accepting patients on a case-by-case basis.
However, this number likely includes doctors with family medicine as a specialty that aren't working in primary care, so it wouldn't reflect the actual number of active family doctors with patient rosters.How this med school is tackling the rural doctor shortageCanada’s health-care crisis is most acute in rural and remote areas, but the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has an approach that could help.
Two weeks after she left the nurse practitioner's roster, she found a lump in her breast. Left with no other options, Shapland went to a walk-in clinic. She said a physician's assistant at the clinic broke the news to her: she had breast cancer and would need the tumor in her breast removed. Most new doctors don't want to work 50 to 55 hour weeks like their predecessors, and many choose to work only part time, Sarma said.
While patients may sometimes feel upset when they see their family doctor is only in the office a few days a week, Newbery said those doctors are often "supporting the health-care system in other ways".
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