Euthanasia policies are driving some doctors to leave their profession. Canada continues to struggle with doctor shortages. RBC analysts estimate that Canada will be short around 44,000 physicians by 2028. Family doctors will account for 72 per cent of the shortage. Today, over six million Canadians are without a family doctor. Some provinces have tried
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Why Family Doctors are Leaving the Quebec Healthcare System
on August 29th, 2023
Red tape and waiting lists push doctors out of Quebec healthcare and toward independent practice When workers quit a workplace in large numbers, we tend to dwell – and rightly so – on what that workplace is doing wrong. When those workers are doctors, though, and what they’re leaving is our government-run health system, the
Short on Family Doctors? Nurse Practitioners Can Help
Alberta plan to empower nurse practitioners is an innovative approach to healthcare reform Nearly one in eight Albertans don’t have access to a family doctor. That makes for roughly 600,000 of our fellow citizens who don’t have a physician regularly following up on their health and tracking its evolution. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith