Montreal to get fewer GPs than expected
Montreal is getting fewer GPs than expected for the second year in a row, a blow for an area already short of doctors.
Quebec is nonetheless bragging that it has reached its target in signing people up for family medicine practices. A regular reader of this blog showed me two official letters they received, signing them up for two practices in different parts of town, and mentioning that they had a friend who also received two letters assigning them and their kids to practices in different places. They suggest that this scattershot approach is merely a way of claiming that everyone’s taken care of, leading up to the election.
jeather 09:31 on 2022-08-10 Permalink
It was me. Specifically, I received 2 letters on July 27 assigning me to two clinics, one in St‑Henri where I live and one in St‑Laurent where I have never lived. My friend received 2 letters on July 28 assigning her children — who have a pediatrician and have never been on the family doctor finder list — to a clinic in Rosemont, where they do not live and have never lived. (My friend and her partner did not receive letters.)
Given that they planned to find 250k people new doctors by July 31, just before the election, this seems like complete fiction; I wonder, if I call that clinic and say I was assigned to them so when can I get an appointment, what they would say.