Jesus Christ, are they *trying* to lose the next provincial election? Because this is how you do it. Usually with healthcare, you’re supposed to promise to *give* people a family doctor, not take them away!
Because “healthy patients” are only healthy until they *aren’t* – and that could happen at absolutely any time, and will likely take longer to be identified if said patients don’t have a regular doctor.
Bentstrings84 on
Until healthy people pay lower taxes hard no. Even with lower taxes no. Maybe scrap family doctors for people who don’t take their doctor’s advice and are a lost cause?
lugols on
In theory, this change would be one of the steps to ensure better primary care access at the population level (as should have been the case with CLSCs: salaried GPs responsible for the entire population of a certain geographical area).
But of course, the CAQ is not the party of universal health care. This is probably another lob into the court of Telus, Dialogue, and Legault’s Quebec inc. buddies for more profitable private health government handouts.
Routine_Soup2022 on
They really have to get out of this billing number mentally where doctors can only have a limited number or patients on their roster. That’s what drives this thinking
Marrymechrispratt on
Shouldn’t it be triaged like this everywhere? I don’t understand how this isn’t already a thing.
I spent 3 years waiting for a family doctor in Vancouver and I live with type 1 diabetes. I need a constant supply of insulin, glucagon, infusion sets, sensors, and other equipment to keep me alive every day.
3 years. I survived off walk-in clinics and shoddy healthcare.
Moved back to the states and got a family doc and endocrinologist in 2 days.
d7gt on
My family doctor’s great so I’m happy I have severe mental illness.
Wait, I don’t think that’s a sentence anyone should ever think. Or has ever thought.
Tall_Guava_8025 on
The proposal seems crazy but I actually wouldn’t mind this as long as it’s paired with: (1) a robust, integrated electronic health record system and (2) a strong walk-in clinic system (preferably attached to hospitals).
In Ontario, there are so many people stuck with terrible family doctors right now who either don’t provide good care or have huge wait times for appointments or penalize you for visiting a walk-in clinic. Many are also running on old technology and don’t get access to all your records easily. Being able to visit any clinic you want and get care/referrals/etc would be great as long as the doctors at these clinics can see your full history. It would be especially great if these clinics were part of hospitals so that you can get any testing/lab work done in the same visit.
Definitely complex patients do need some type of primary care doctor who knows the full story but most people probably don’t need that for most of their lives.
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Jesus Christ, are they *trying* to lose the next provincial election? Because this is how you do it. Usually with healthcare, you’re supposed to promise to *give* people a family doctor, not take them away!
Because “healthy patients” are only healthy until they *aren’t* – and that could happen at absolutely any time, and will likely take longer to be identified if said patients don’t have a regular doctor.
Until healthy people pay lower taxes hard no. Even with lower taxes no. Maybe scrap family doctors for people who don’t take their doctor’s advice and are a lost cause?
In theory, this change would be one of the steps to ensure better primary care access at the population level (as should have been the case with CLSCs: salaried GPs responsible for the entire population of a certain geographical area).
But of course, the CAQ is not the party of universal health care. This is probably another lob into the court of Telus, Dialogue, and Legault’s Quebec inc. buddies for more profitable private health government handouts.
They really have to get out of this billing number mentally where doctors can only have a limited number or patients on their roster. That’s what drives this thinking
Shouldn’t it be triaged like this everywhere? I don’t understand how this isn’t already a thing.
I spent 3 years waiting for a family doctor in Vancouver and I live with type 1 diabetes. I need a constant supply of insulin, glucagon, infusion sets, sensors, and other equipment to keep me alive every day.
3 years. I survived off walk-in clinics and shoddy healthcare.
Moved back to the states and got a family doc and endocrinologist in 2 days.
My family doctor’s great so I’m happy I have severe mental illness.
Wait, I don’t think that’s a sentence anyone should ever think. Or has ever thought.
The proposal seems crazy but I actually wouldn’t mind this as long as it’s paired with: (1) a robust, integrated electronic health record system and (2) a strong walk-in clinic system (preferably attached to hospitals).
In Ontario, there are so many people stuck with terrible family doctors right now who either don’t provide good care or have huge wait times for appointments or penalize you for visiting a walk-in clinic. Many are also running on old technology and don’t get access to all your records easily. Being able to visit any clinic you want and get care/referrals/etc would be great as long as the doctors at these clinics can see your full history. It would be especially great if these clinics were part of hospitals so that you can get any testing/lab work done in the same visit.
Definitely complex patients do need some type of primary care doctor who knows the full story but most people probably don’t need that for most of their lives.