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'My family doctor just fired me': Ontario patients frustrated with de-rostering
(toronto.ctvnews.ca)
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Burn out? Tired of BS? No viable therapeutic relationship?
Did you read the article?
That is a stupid system that had absolutely no input from healthcare professionals and a lot from people that want to privatize healthcare.
You… just described what I was talking about.
Each time the patient sees a different doctor it hurts the family doctor financially, that is why they are "firing" patients. Nothing to do with any other factor, just financial.
If patients see other doctors often enough (6 times in a year), or for things that get billed at a higher rate than a check-up (aka, basically everything), the family doctor will need to pay out more than the government paid them in the first place.