36 Replies to “The Engineer To Doctor Immigration Ratio Could Use Tweaking”

  3. A know a fella who married a doctor and when they went on their honeymoon, the ER closed in the small Ontario she was in….go figure. That’s the dismal state of the healthcare system.

  5. At the University of Saskatchewan, the only university in Sask. with a Faculty of Medicine, it is 2.6 kilometres to City Hospital, not through the central business district, mostly major type road, and the google machine says 5 minutes.

    Maybe the University should give their priorities a long hard look. How many administrators are employed by City Hospital? I think working in emergency would be kinda sweet. I wouldn’t want to see sick folks in an office, ever.

      1. 40 yrs ago we met a young intern doctor. He was moving to detroit for more ER action (bullet wounds), and more $.

        1. I knew a US doc who worked ER. They had a name for most of those gunshot wounds. SOCMMOBs.

          When asked how they got shot, they were “Standing on the corner, mindin my own business – and somebody shot me!”

      2. Sure you start off easy in a small town of about 20k … then eventually make it to the big leagues of Regina, then shoot for gold in Winnipeg.

        How else? They get to bury their failures.

        1. That’s the old saying: a doctor’s mistakes go six feet under. But a dentist’s cover an acher…

    2. Top heavy administration means fewer front line staff. Thus, AHS is screaming its head off over Danielle Smith’s reforms as Dipper friendly admin and management are being cut down. I would assume that the situation in Saskatoon is the same. Too many managers and admin causing a shortage of front line staff that causes the ER to close up early.

  6. If anyone sees a doctor born in Canada report it to the newspapers. A rare sighting. Going the way of the delta smelt.

    1. Let’s make it even more rare and add young white Chriatian male born in Canada. If you see one then omega but a lottery ticket.

  7. I once worked with an “engineer” from Romania. He didn’t have his P.Eng but there was no real restriction on him working as an engineer other than stamping drawings, or safety certifying equipment. His wife had been a family doctor in Romania. They checked into what she needed to do, but Ontario recognized none of her education. She would have needed to start over. She went to the local college and became a nurse in 2 years.

    1. She was doubtless the wrong color. If she were nice and brown, she would be credentialed much faster, of course her owner (husband) would not permit it.

  10. But Trudeau and Carney have millions to send to Syria! This bullshit never ends with this Liberal /NDP disaster!

  12. Government limits the number of students allowed into medical schools. The government is capping it too low. This doctor shortage is 100% a longstanding problem of the government’s creation.

    1. Limits the number of students in medical school but, before they were withdrawn in a snit, there were a thousand Saudi Arabian students in Canadian medical schools and hospitals. That’s 1,000 from one country when I have wait 3 weeks to see a doctor other than a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe who failed his English as a second language course. And my fiends are waiting a year or two for surgery.

  14. Personal anecdote.
    After waiting for 6 months for a new doctor in Ontario after my family physician retired…
    After going a year and a half without seeing a doctor in SK…
    I moved to Alberta and found a doctor with just one phone call.
    I will refrain from commenting any further.

  15. No. No ratios need tweaking. We just need a free market private healthcare system to take the lead. For political reasons, a parallel public one would run for at least a decade or two.

    1. No tweaking, eh UnReal? I note your sarcasm, and will respond with some of my own…
      I’m sure the people that died waiting for treatment will be very reassured with your assessment.
      But seriously… If no tweaks are needed, what will you tell the people WAITING FOR YEARS for treatment. Have any suggestions to reduce the wait times so that people won’t actually DIE before they get treatment?
      …and please don’t tell them to ask for MAiD. Sort of defeats the purpose of supposedly paying for health care all our lives with exorbitant taxes.

  18. The ER at RUH in Saskatoon has permanently created beds in a hallway as they could not accommodate the volume in the ER. The problem, however, is that the bed situation on the wards is not managed well. People stay in the hospital for FaR TO LONG- because it’s “free”

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation