Dozens of Ontarians are expressing frustration in the province’s health-care system after their family doctors either dropped them as patients or threatened to after they sought urgent care elsewhere.
Burn out? Tired of BS? No viable therapeutic relationship?
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.
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.