Interesting to get to know one in Victoria. I found a family doctor within days of searching in Vancouver, so I have been assuming this is a big city x small city disparity, but if someone has been waiting 3 years in Victoria then there’s something else at play?
I have a family doctor. I put myself on a waiting list and got one.
Then he quit.
Then a doctor took over for him and I hate this guy.
What kinda snowflake am I, right? But I go in because I want to talk to him about xyz and he doesn’t address it at all. Every 4 months it’s another fucking test for ancillary shit and I still need something fixed.
Are they trying to wait my middle-aged ass out? Like maybe I’ll randomly get a bigger problem so they don’t have to schedule an ER for a 35-min procedure?
Checkmate, bitch. I’m moving across the street from the hospital, across the street and down from the lab and a block away from the doc’s office. I’ll do all the tests and X-rays and shit until I wait YOU out. I’ll do appointments every day.
Huh. Reading the article now that I have time, they cite massive immigration as an issue, not to mention training people from other countries who then go home.
I know people in hospitals that retired when COVID hit, but not GPs. Not to say it isn’t the case, but I’d like to see a large study showing WTF is going on.
My doctor retired and I didn’t get the email until weeks later. By then the replacement was full up, so yeah, no healthcare for me unless it’s at the ER.
I’m in QC and on the waiting list for 10 years. What is a family doctor? It’s unknown here. And even if you have one you cannot see him before 3 or 4 weeks, so you go to the ER or private doctor
Magistral BS. There is no 10 years waiting list FYI but since you’re allegedly on the list it would take you 36 hours to see a doctor following the GAP procedure and not 3 or 4 weeks as you say. You gotta be an impetuous out of province newcomer lost in and Québec bashing for no reason but justifying your ignorance.
I have a family doctor, but they are in a different city than me because I never got a new one after moving away from my parents.
I can’t risk looking for a new one because the supply is so low and I have a prescription which doctors refuse to make refillable. I need to get it re-prescribed every 90 days, even though I’ve been taking it at the same dosage for like 5 years now
I’m in the same boat. My doctor is on the other side of the city but I don’t dare lose him because I need him to constantly refill an important prescription that really should just be infinite because I have to take it for the rest of my life. Thankfully I can do a lot of it by phone now which takes a lot of hassle off both of us.
Yeah I haven’t interacted with this doctor in literally a couple of years, but every time I call the pharmacy to refill me, the pharmacist faxes my doc, and lo and behold, the new script arrives. No idea why they can’t just make it refillable. No doctor will do it though.
Stimulants? My doc tells me he has to be paranoid because basically if they found out that anyone took a single dose of amphetamine for fun, he would lose his license. Any other drugs, here, have a sack of them and a lifetime supply of renewals. But not stimulants.
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