Dr. Ilan Shahin collected the job postings for family doctors in Toronto for a week recently and then he codified them. He found some interesting things about where job growth for doctors is happening.
Enrolled or rostered patients in Ontario who go outside their family clinic result in fee deductions for the clinic. It has always been ‘infuriating’ but some say the pandemic and online walk-in clinics has made it worse.
Concern about a spreading rash on his right arm, led a 21-year-old fair-skinned male to seek care from our walk-in clinic recently. He was afraid the rash represented an infection.
With Canada spending $186.5 billion a year on health, why are there barriers to timely care? Canada has the second-lowest number of doctors per capita of the 11 high-income OECD countries.
