A doctor wears a stethoscope around his neck as he tends to patients in his office. More than 6.5 million Canadians go without regular access to a family doctor or nurse practitioner, according to data from the OurCare initiative.
More than six million Canadians report that they do not have regular access to primary care physicians. It's a crisis the experts say has caused untold harm and preventable cases of death and disease — and it's expected to get worse before it gets better.More than 6.5 million Canadians go without regular access to a family doctor or nurse practitioner, according to data from the OurCare initiative. they do not have regular access to primary care physicians.
The population is growing and family doctors are retiring en masse. More than 1.7 million people in Ontario have a family doctor who is over the age of 65, Barber said. And a large number of family physicians are not practising in traditional clinics but are instead choosing to work in hospitals or sports medicine clinics where they can find more regular hours and a better work-life balance.
All she wants, she said, is to know where she is on the waiting list — information that provincial officials have told her can't be disclosed.Her husband Steve is going in for surgery later this year. She said she fears that, without a family doctor, he won't get the post-operative drugs and advice he needs to fully recover.
"It's challenging. We're not exactly sure what's going to happen," she told CBC News. "We've been on a list for like three years and it just doesn't seem like anything's happening. He said he hasn't always been happy with the care he's received — a previous family doctor misdiagnosed his hip pain, depriving him of the replacement he really needed for years — but at least he had somebody to turn to when something popped up.Canadian medical students trained abroad are struggling to get a residency in Canada, while the number of foreign nationals, or ‘visa trainees,’ getting a spot has increased by 70 per cent, a trend that advocates say needs to end.
Pointing to the millions of dollars allegedly wasted on the pandemic-era ArriveCan app, Wishart said that money could have been a game-changer for a smaller region like his, which is perpetually starved for health resources. She has launched a grassroots campaign to secure more medical residency spots for local students who train abroad in countries like Australia and the U.K. A doctor must go through a residency before they can be licensed to practice.Canadian-born family doctor struggles to come home through a wall of red tape
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