A shortage of doctors at a Vancouver Island hospital — which one physicians says has impacted many patients — has forced an elderly man with a terminal cancer diagnosis to wait more than a day for follow-up care, according to the man's family.
Care delays plague Nanaimo hospital, says doctor, after one-third of hospital-based family doctors quitBill and Betty Smith share a moment together, before Bill was hospitalized.
The family was told Bill might have to wait two days "in a hallway" to be seen by a hospitalist, a hospital-based general physician who co-ordinates care for patients with complex needs. It also suggested the family could email hospital administrators and supervisors with any further questions, and provided a list of their email addresses.
"They manage the vast majority of patients in the hospital," he said. "Hospitalists are the backbone of in-hospital care."Family doctor shortage complicates access to 'life-changing' device for B.C. diabetes patient
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