I'm pretty surprised you're able to find yourself a family doctor so quickly after relocating to Calgary bcos of all the negative stories and anecdotes about doctors and healthcare staffing coming out of Albera. As a matter of fact, BC has a ~10% advantage in the physician to population ratio of 270 physicians per 100k people, vs Alberta's 244.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...t-bc-1.7118582
My MIL has also been bouncing through a few different family doctors in recent years, with periods ranging from 2 - 3 months to almost a year when she doesn't have a family doctor. For a while, she was taken in by a GP in Coquitlam even though she lives in Burnaby. And then she complained it was too far, and I believe we ended up finding her another doctor in Burnaby recently.
I am under no illusion that we have enough doctors and nurses in the province, and both me and my family members have at times experienced wait times that are much longer than how things should have been. But over all, I feel like our family doctor situation has improved a bit over the last few years since the NDP (Horgan?) and Adrian Dix revamped the family doctor compensation package.
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Originally Posted by 68style
You know why BC sucks? Because even doctors don’t want to live there. I got a doctor in Calgary like 2 days after moving there and she is a new immigrant from the UK but originally from the Caribbean. New immigrants are doctors too, not just uber eats drivers. She chose Calgary because she can easily live here quite nicely with her income but in Vancouver she’d be saving for 3 years to get a house down payment.
Btw there’s an online waiting list for family doctors in BC… I put myself on it and it took 2.5 years for them to offer me one, but I been offered 2 now since I left… so it’s doable but you gotta get on the list and wait. Took a ridiculous amount of time but anyone saying you “can’t” get one is just an entitled dick who wants everything to fall into their lap and won’t even take the most basic steps to make it happen for themselves.
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