More than 6 million Canadians don’t have a family doctor, report finds | Power & Politics 

I don’t have a family doctor. It’s not fair that I have to pay taxes for nothing

Lovely healthcare we are paying for. My doctor literally told me to go to tijuana mexico for my surgery. How is canada considered a 1st world country? This place is a literal dump

No doctors, no homes. Stop letting people here. We have no room.

I’ve had 5 family doctors in 4 years. As soon as I start to get comfortable with one, I get letter from the clinic saying they left.

Im.doctor living in Canada, and like me around 60 k International Medical Graduates doctors with enough experience to support our new home Canada! We are the solution.

Why do we pay medical? if there is no service.?? Companies offer medical benifits after probation yet there is no sevices.

Why not apologize and reinstate the medical staff fired for not getting the vaccine?

I am now homeless worked all my life but because I couldnt get a doctor so my disability wasnt approved. At over 60yrs of age I am told I paid for it but my Complex PTSD, DEGENERATIVE DISK DISEASE ISNT PROLONGED!!! ITS TIME FOR A LAWYER AND A MAJOR CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.

Wow, I'm really disappointed in Dr. Kathleen Ross's use of the term "diaper to diaper" to depict people across across the ages. It's frankly agist to believe that all elderly people are in diapers.

Family doctors in Ontario are paid 40$ per patient and their overhead cost is 40% of their incomes, they leave the province, as simple as that.

This is deplorable..this is Canada for Gods sake!

I'm surprised they didn't say from cattle to slaughter.

Ontario government officials are holding financial reserves that could save lives and their decision is not to do so. This is criminal

I don’t have a GP and at 84 years old it has and is proving to be a stressful, terrible time in my life. It is the first time in all those years that I have not had a GP going back long before government Medicare. This situation did not happen overnight and successive governments both Provincial and Federal had their not so fine hands in making this mess. People are not being cared for in this country and all the talk is just that “talk”.

isn't it the college of physicians and surgeons that decides how many doctors get into medical school?

Why not make rules and regulations easy for internationally trained physicians?

Rewarding the government for how much money has been spent is meaningless.. It's about results.. and the results look terrible

Thank you for bringing light to this important issue doctors!

And there are the ones like us who officially have a family doctor but can never get an appointment... Comes down to the same :/ We went private last year even though it is very expensive - but not getting a diagnosis in time van be even more costly.

Someone hasn’t been briefed by communications ‘Diaper to diaper’ is NOT the way Canadians would like to frame their health needs through the lifespan.

The answer is simple - more university spots and more funding for all medical professions. Why is that so hard for our government to understand. Our Government needs to demand that our educational institutions can provide the training and then provide forgivable loans to graduates willing to practice in areas where they are needed. Second step is to make it more simple for Canadians receiving medical training in other countries to come back home for residency.

This is a CRISIS

its all going according to plan

As someone with a painful, progressive, genetic condition, I see our health care system in action and the last 5 years has been the breaking point. It's no longer health care, it's torture, if you are sick enough to be going to the ER, you need a bed but they make you sit up in waiting room chairs while they treat you for 8hrs, 24hrs+ wait for a bed. If you need a specialist the wait is so long whatever issues you are having get worse. People who can afford it are going to the united states for care! We used to believe we had better Healthcare than them but now we're running to them because the Canadian government has seriously dropped the ball on Healthcare top to bottom.

Guys, the key is to be patient. Im been waiting for 8 years now, I reckon it'll be my turn soon 🤡

Healthcare all over Canada is in crisis and nothing is being done to solve the problem. It is a shame. What is being done by the federal government and the provincial governments does not solve the problem. It is only getting worse and will continue getting worse as long as healthcare is not treated as a priority and an emergency.We need a real plan to solve the problem.

so remaining 36 mill have?

And for those that do, many GP's are burnt-out and inept at providing proper preventative care (ie - diet, lifestyle, mental health)

diaper to diaper care taking over for cradle to grave? Really? Disrespectful to elderly patients who are actually healthy.

Even if you have a family doctor there is still no continuity of care. My family doctor remembers nothing of any previous conversation. You can have the same conversation dozens and dozens of times despite seeing the same doctor for almost 8 years, you have to start from step one each time, and each time he acts like its the first time it has ever been discussed. He doesn't make any notes or if he does never looks at them. Never looks at any notes from any other member of my healthcare team. He has no idea what conditions I have nor what meds I am on. It is like talking to someone with Alzheimer's essentially. The care that doctors provide is just absolute trash. If you get sick you need to solve EVERYTHING on your own, literally everything, otherwise nothing will ever get done. It is also NEVER the job of the doctor in front of you, it will always be someone else's job regardless which doctor you see or who they send you to, it won't be their job either. The entire western medical way (outside of celebrity cash) is a total scam. If only the average person knew just what a scam it was. How little of a role the western medical healthcare professional ACTUALLY fulfills vs what they market.

WE don't have a family doctor here in Southern BC. We used to have one, but he was removed from our little town because of behavioral issues. To protect his identity, we'll call him Jayded Quackentyre. Jayded had some negative personality issues and there were problems. Ok, that's fine, they got rid of him, but they didn't replace him. That was almost 3 years ago and all that's happened was that we were told we were on a " list " and as soon as a doctor was available we'd have a family doctor once again. That was almost 3 years ago. I guess we're just going to have to stop giving billions away to foreign entities and start taking care of our own country. I wonder if that will ever happen?

Wounder why? Because highly trained IMGs are flipping burgers at Tim Horton or driving cab in Canada.

She keeps smiling and it's not coming across well for me tbh as one out of five

I couldn't and haven't been able to find a family doctor in Ontario ever. I never heard of any doctor taking any patients

Or you could be like us, who have a doctor, but his reception NEVER returns calls or answers the phone at all. Pretty useless. It's not an issue with this doctor either. it's becoming more and more common. Just sad.

In BC gov't says they have fixed the issue since they have a sign up list if you have no doctor. But it does not work: I've been on it for 3 years and never had a call to get a doctor. Problem is in my view at least 4 fold, in no particular order: 1. MD's are the initial bottleneck to system! Many of us would be happy to have instead a DC or ND - both would make excellent primary care access points as they also have 7 years of good education! 2. Our system is set up to treat disease, not prevent it! ND and DC for primary care access would help very much to change this. 3. Most obvious issue is the RUNAWAY IMMIGRATION under Trudeau! Letting in just everyone - not those with skill sets we need has overrun ALL Canadian services - not just healthcare but crime prevention, housing. This Liberal government lacks common sense! 4. Follow the money folks - for every person who has no primary care, how much does the healthcare system save? Obviously, no dollars are spent on specialists or pharmacy or hospitals either since non of these services are utilized if one has no primary care doctor to get access! I'd like to start a petition for ALL of us without doctors to get the equivalent funds per person that they save on each of us directly. I would use mine to go to a dentist and an ND and DC! Forget MD's unless you need drugs or surgery as they have almost no training in long term illness and no time to treat you anyway! Perhaps a Conservative government will take steps to make needed commonsense changes. At least they will defund the Ontario first/Liberal mouthpiece of the CBC news, the unnecessary bureaucracy at all levels and stop the spendthrift and fraud of the Trudeau government. How I miss Canada as a society pre-Trudeau! Have a good week everyone! Take good care of yourselves! Be kind to one another. And try your best not to lose hope. Blessings.

Canada had 26.10 doctors per 10,000 population in 2017. USA had 25.98 doctors per 10,000 population in 2016. However, the US have multiple primary care providers that help hand in hand on the ground. They have a huge supply of Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, DO's, CRNA, even Pharmacists can prescribe drugs themselves, which unfortunately Canada Lags behind due to its bureaucratic public health care system. Don't get me wrong There is a shortage in the US and other developed countries as well but it is just insanity in Canada right now, imagine a 6 months wait to see a specialist.

Change the university system!

I'm in a Nurse Practitioner program and funding to get through the program is non-existent. It's a full-time program requiring 50-60 hours of studying per week so its not feasible to work. We have many great nurses who would make awesome Nurse Practitioners but can't do so due to financial barriers.

I came as PR 7 years ago, never have a family doctor, I bring medicine from my country.

We need 4000 family doctors.

Reading off a script...

Monopoly game. The system need to be overhauled. Give nursing practitioners the prescription right

Did I just hear DOCTOR Kathleen Ross suggest more vacation time for docs in an interview regarding shortage of doctors???? Now we know where the problem lies!!!!

I'm not surprised , Canada's policies have produced these problems. Medical practitioners are granted immigration based on their education agency profession but once here have to go through a lengthy and costly process. Then there are new doctors who graduate from UBC and other of our top universities and end up moving south as we can't afford to pay them a decent wage during their residencies. My doctor's practice has seen an unbelievable turn over in young doctors. Ontario has brought in 13,000 foreign doctors. About time more instead of less money is invested in our health care system. Also free health care should be given to persons living in Canada. Foreign doctors

Why BC Bonnie Hennry wont hire the fired healthcare back?

As a young to middle aged man, doctors have laughed me out of their practices for two decades.

The only way to have a family doctor is if you personally know them

Every year passing medical graduates, so why this crisis? Govt should rules after passing graduate must be serve two years own native town.

Hey i am getting ready for the residency match and if i get FM i'll likely do it, can't contribute more than that, sadly.

Did he really ask her if it was worth spending money to keep people alive!! What!!

Family doctors are just an urban legend… it’s even worst in Qc.

No one talks about this BS of allowing ONE question/issue per appointment. You may have 3 questions, 2 are quick, and one requires testing, whatever. That could take ONE, 10-minute appointment. But no, we must make THREE appointments. What a FN waste of time. This is ON PURPOSE. CMA can kiss my rosy red cheeks.

may be they should hire back the doctors and nurses that used repurposed drugs too cure covid , no instead they lost there licsence and were fired .

I haven't had a doctor in 30 years. My country is getting much worse the older I get.Now the government is sick and no way to treat it.

It's fun when corporations in Canada deny medical leave because of this. "Yeah, this is a walk in clinic doctor's note. We are going to deny your medical leave"

Just go to a walk-in clinic. Having a family doctor is overrated

This has been a problem in SK forever.

I've not had a family doctor since I was in high school. I moved to Manitoba and healthcare cards take over a year to get. I am hopeful though, because our housing taxes are going up a little but it's to get and retain more doctors and nurses. I'm glad the new government is trying to fix what the previous one broke. I know they're trying to streamline immigrants who were nurses and doctors in other countries.

I guess I'll update my passport and pay for a check up in the states. Expensive healthcare is better than no healthcare. Glad to see people have access to this "universal" health care system we apparently value so much. This country is a bad joke.

I really want a family doctor to refer me to a health check up as i got older, sadly i can not find a family doctor anywhere, hopefully i dont carry any latent diseases

This could be something internationally encouraged by the government that may be tied to the massive crimes going on in the country. Everything in this country seems to be well planned and integrated to produce the outcomes they want and it doesn’t seem to include the wellbeing of people.

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Pay more and take down barriers for US trained and board certified physicians to practice in Canada

How are Gru and his minions going to fix this? Lets me guess, another summit

Some people don’t want an ethnic family doctor so they just do without or go to the emerg.

Better question what’s the F’ing advantage to have one??? Like literally no advantage healthcare here is a joke

I blame the tech sector. Very little and short training equals big money. Ask the scammers.

Colony problems

The taxes are REALLY working. Keep paying them to receive nothing.

This is outrageous..come on, this is Canada…not just Ontario btw

Will probably live longer without a doctor

Well let's recall the massive healthcare reforms of the 90s where doctors and nurses were pushed into retirement, told Public/Private partnership would be bebeficial and cost effective. Well here we are. Give decent work conditions and educate in house and youll have a healthcare workforce. Why would you want to go into this field with the current work environment? Especialy when it does not need to be this way, other countries make it work. Be preventive in treatment instead of reactive and yu save money in the long run.

Germany, the UK as I know, and probably many other financially 'rational' countries are importing foreign physicians to their countries with the reasoning that it will reduce the wages for physicians, resulting in reduced costs, and it will increase the physician supply to their people, resulting in improved healthcare. But the organizations of Canadian doctors in my opinion are lobbying against this rationale out of their self-interest for their earnings, i.e. selling the Canadians' health for more gain. Canada is a very difficult country for foreign doctors to be licensed despite them passing the required examinations and high achievements.

Wow! There’s so many problems in this world and Canada, how will we ever deal with it all?

Iàm one of them may God help us oh

Trudeau doesn’t care

A frightening crisis

We immigrated with my wife and three children from Ukraine. I am a surgeon, my wife is an ophthalmologist. We have more than ten years of experience. You can go through the licensing path, but you have to devote all your time to it. Now we have to pay the rent and feed the children... There's no time to study for exams and improve our English. I'm sure we could be useful to other people, but it's just not possible.

Why are we not mad that the government let go doctors and nurses that refused to promote covid shots

Sounds like too many immigrants is the problem.

Trudeaus new Canada.😢

Having to see a GP before being able to see a specialist is a waste of time and money. Also all the money the provincial govt is wasting on ads they could have paid for more Drs and nurses. Btw those ads are for private pay out of pocket health care! Not everyone can afford this. But the Conservatives both provincial and federal don’t care!

Some of the best doctors I have had were trained outside this country, and I've had excellent doctors trained in Canada. I would absolutely go to a foreign-trained doctor if that is who is available. Doctors are not the only ones who can provide care. Pharmacists and nurses can and do provide some essential basic care, clearing the way so that more complex care goes to doctors.

I’ve been waiting and a on a list for close to 3 years for a GP and will be one of those morbidities soon due to multiple chronic diseases that weren’t being managed and treated. Im pretty sure 36 isn’t supposed to be this way.

I've been waiting for a family doctor for two years now. Maybe if I tell them I'm saying "goodbye" to the word, they'll finally consider me!

Not enough doctors and Doctors are not humanist in Canada,. They seeking money more than patient health.

Whst a shame for Canada . They used to say number 1 country in the world!

Canada uses Newcomers to pay pensions of old Europeans through tax

Senior politicians and government policy workers could give up their family Doctors to those who have serious need for a doctor. That would give them more incentive to focus on the issues that would solve the problems.

Among a group of 30 high-income countries that have universally accessible health care, Canada spends the most money on health care as a percentage of GDP. Despite this high spending, we are a poor performer. Among this group, Canada had the longest wait lists and ranked 28th (out of 30) for the number of doctors. In my opinion that is shameful. Physicians need to continue advocating for a better system. Politicians and policy makers have let patients down. I hope that the recently announced funding goes to train and retain more frontline workers and does not go to the management positions as it is very clear we rarely find a physician or nurse who praises our system, however you will never find a hospital CEO that criticizes it

MAID is cheaper.Ask dr. Mengele

I am one of them.

Wow! She sounds like a liberal MP

How about we start asking MEDICAL SCHOOLS TO STEP UP??!?!? They BUILD DOCTORS…. OPEN THESE SCHOOLS TO MORE STUDENTS!!!!!!!

No diapers here. We don't need pharmacare - we need TRUTH about our food supply instead of lies. We need healers, not dealers.

if it is CBC , i will dislike

She is so full of it. Most GP visits are prescription refills runny noses aches and pains. Nurse practioners can handle a huge majority of those visits but the MD can't make money for the office visit. More nurse practioners and pharmacists take money away from the MD and their Mercedes psyments

What if people cooked from scratch ? you wouldn't need all them doctors to start with .

I go to good doctors and they were saying that the government cut their funds... like WTF lol