Here in BC it's just a lack of political will because physicians are expensive, governments are broke after COVID, and so instead of fixing the system (which would cost money), the absolute morons in the health ministry have decided that "nurse practitioners" are 1:1 substitutes for family doctors, despite the fact that they don't go to medical school and thus don't receive any diagnostic training whatsoever.
It'll right itself eventually, but I'm not sure what the actuarial tables say about whether I'll be around to see it or not.
The best you can do is take care of yourself. Exercise, eat healthy, don’t do overly risky activities.
It really is a shame the state we are left in BC. If it was more accessible I would go back to school to become a doctor but the MD programs are far and few between and not really structured for someone with kids.
I do meet the entrance criteria for the UBC med program but Im not going to uproot my family back to Vancouver.
The newly proposed increased federal tax share from 1/2 to 2/3 on corporate capital gains will also negatively effect many doctors in Canada as well since many of them run their own companies and invest some of the income for desirable tax advantages.
Don't do it. I'm married to a doctor who started in family medicine and bailed out because the work-life balance was awful and the money was mediocre, but she wasn't willing to see 6 patients an hour.
That's just what they tell voters in order to get away with cutting the thing government exists to provide in the first place, all to lower taxes for some weird political-religious ideals.
If the government can't basics like health care, that government has no reason to exist.
Not saying your overall message is wrong about your region but... My wife is an NP and most of her courses and clinical time were focused on diagnostic techniques.
