"I think the frustration remains related to just the capacity within the family medicine community to address all of the needs of the population," said Gutkin, whose organization conducts the triennial survey jointly with the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
"Physicians in most communities across the country are doing their best to try to see as many patients as they can," he said Tuesday. "But still many of them have had to ... limit the number of new patients they can take. And we have community after community with patients who are unable to access a family physician for themselves or for their families."
"And the family physicians themselves are aware of this and are very frustrated by this."
In fact, an estimated four million to five million Canadians do not have a family doctor, and physicians groups lay the blame in part on a woefully understaffed health-care system.
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When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remember that the initial objective was to drain the swamp
Perhaps the doctor business should be pushing more healthy eating (less "convenience" food), if they want less of a work load. Or wold their workload "magically" become manageable with a massive fee increase..........?
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