If you have done some research about Canada's healthcare system, you would already know that anything that is free comes with its terms and conditions. Free healthcare in Canada is no different. People have been waiting for years & years to be taken under a family doctor. The citizens are still waiting, so it goes without saying how much a newly landed immigrant new to the country has to wait to get a family doctor. Its near to impossible to get a family doctor, a cursory google search tells you that.
In Quebec, the problem is acute because of the lack of new doctors and many young doctors moving away from the province due lack of pay or policy issues in Quebec for their practice. The talented immigrant doctors are not allowed to practice anywhere in Canada, because their degrees are not accepted in Canada, though they get points in Express Entry. Once they land, they should find some other job. There is a saying that, if you are going to have a heart attack in Canada, it should be in a cab, because many cab drivers are doctors who immigrated, but cannot practice their profession because their doctoral degrees are not accepted.
But I am determined to find a family doctor somehow by employing many techniques that I can think of and documenting them in this thread, so that a new immigrant might find it useful.
In Quebec, the problem is acute because of the lack of new doctors and many young doctors moving away from the province due lack of pay or policy issues in Quebec for their practice. The talented immigrant doctors are not allowed to practice anywhere in Canada, because their degrees are not accepted in Canada, though they get points in Express Entry. Once they land, they should find some other job. There is a saying that, if you are going to have a heart attack in Canada, it should be in a cab, because many cab drivers are doctors who immigrated, but cannot practice their profession because their doctoral degrees are not accepted.
But I am determined to find a family doctor somehow by employing many techniques that I can think of and documenting them in this thread, so that a new immigrant might find it useful.
