Blacklock’s- Wanted: 68,564 Medical Staff
Researchers concluded the nation was short 68,564 health care professionals including 22,823 doctors and 41,584 nurses. Shortages of pharmacists and physiotherapists were also noted.
“Overall there are substantial gaps across all study in-scope health professions,” said Health Workforce. “Relative gaps to the population consistently identify larger gaps in rural areas compared to urban areas particularly for family physicians.”
Francisco- That’s not the only problem.
National Post- Canada’s doctors can’t practise anywhere in the country due to interprovincial barriers
When dozens of hospital patients were evacuated by military flight out of Yellowknife as the wildfires approached in the summer of 2023, the doctors who accompanied them couldn’t care for their patients once the aircraft landed, because they didn’t have licences to practice in British Columbia or other jurisdictions.
Gee, it’s too bad they chased away a bunch of good ones a couple years back.
Might have been handy to have them around but I guess it was more important to adopt divisive policies that would make everyone’s lives worse
There are about 10,187 people in “Health Canada” and 4251 in “Public Health Agency of Canada” all dedicated to telling us what’s wrong with the health system, and about 0 doing anything about it.
The nearly 2 billion a year given to the CBC and mainstream media translates to the following:
2,000 MRI machines (at a million a pop)
Or
5,714 doctors ($350,00 per year)
Or
13,433 registered nurses ($150,000 per year)
And this would be for each and every year moving forward. If Canada were to receive a much needed DOGE enema, there’s no telling what we could fund….or better yet, not fund in the first place.
If pharmaceuticals were not the answer to every medical problem a pharmacist would not be needed on every corner.
The actual reason is that it is harder to get into pharmacy school than medical school. And having worked that hard, your young pharmacist wants to make MONEY, so they live in the 905/416/519 area codes. NOT in East Moose Antler Sask.
Newsflash, doctors don’t work in rural areas because there are no patients there. The government pays PER PATIENT, not for providing service to a geographic area. So the doctor starves, and then they pack up and move to Toronto. Where the patients are.
Important safety tip, if the government -does- pay to provide service to an area, then the doctor will be too busy to see you. Because they’ll give the guy too much to do. Obviously.
This is a feature, not a bug, of socialized medicine. But the average voter could not care less. They want their free medical care and think that the reason it’s not promptly delivered is because they elected the wrong party last time. Rinse and repeat every time they switch the electing the other party.
And then there is this money. I am not opposed to medical research per se, but much of it is likely duplicative and even wasteful.
In Canada, health research expenditures totaled around 7.4 billion Canadian dollars in 20241. This is significantly less than the $196.23 per capita spent by the U.S. through its National Institutes of Health (NIH)2.
my daughter is a nurse, RN. She had great marks in HS but was shut out of all but one university. the universities have very limited spots and a lot of those spots go to international students, who pay a lot more.
Canadian kids get screwed… again
I support annexation. Canadians are mostly nice, but they are so retarded as a people that it is a clear act of criminal negligence for the US to continue to allow them to keep trying to rule themselves.
Could probably hire 100 nurses for the cost of this new and useless boondoggle
https://x.com/mary_ng/status/1891206676805489133
220 liberals taking a free vacation in Australia while parliament is prorogued to negotiate trade with a country on the other side of the planet
WTF Greg Alan!
How much did I, the taxpayer, pay for this? And how come did I not hear of this before now??
Seems to be one of the benefits of being a LIBERAL, eh, given that the “Shawinigan Strangler” used to lead these groups to China back in the 90s to “Help” ‘China’ a ‘Developing Nation’
The ‘Strangler’ et al must have done a Hell of a job. China has, for all intents and purposes taken over most of the world.
Wow! The UnLimited Boondoggle Budget.
Because Zoom is not a thing.
I have a question for you…are the prorogued parliamentarians still on salary?
ps. It’s no different down here. Every time I turn around congressional representatives are on a tour of Italy.
Are we really even a country? Can’t build a pipeline from one province to the next, doctors can’t practice medicine outside of their home province, Quebec gets more representatives in “federal” government than their population warrants. Time to shop for a better deal.
Canadians Encouraged to Shop Around.
Government has a monopoly on government. BUT! for the first time in 200 years you have a legitimate alternative.
Kanadas a very wealthy country so we can afford what ever our betters want.
Why that’s why….We have more senators than the USA!
There is lots to consider regarding Canada’s Healthcare System. It takes much financial investment to educate a Nurse. Their post secondary tuition is only 20% or less of the cost of their education. The rest is covered by the taxpayer. Only 40% of Nurses work full time, the rest are part time or casual. This is not efficient or good value/return for the investment. Is this underutilization due to personal choice or Union contracts or just the system? How many other Canadians can afford to live on part time income?
In BC, it’s extra triple bad.
1. The jab mandates drove many health professionals away. Many went to Alberta and the US Red states, and aren’t coming back.
2. The Commie NDP changed each Health College jurisdiction. They are no longer independent colleges (from the government) but are now all under government control. Any decent practitioner with many years to go, as a result, left BC. The government now writes health procedures, no independent thought or common sense is allowed.
No wonder the health scare system is so fecked up here.
Not sure it is “interprovincial barriers” that disallows medical professionals from working in different provinces. It is the “Colleges” themselves that do that. And it is even worse than that…..I had a South African doctor for a few years. A superb doctor. He told me when he came to Canada, he was only allowed to practice in Newfoundland and then only on some little outpost hidden away somewhere. He told me at the time, there was a huge backlog of kids who needed their tonsils yanked. He offered to be involved in that as he had done hundreds or even thousands in South Africa. They wouldn’t let him.
Oh….and it was the “College” of quacks that held the hammer over doctors and told them they were NOT to issue medical exemptions.
Yanking tonsil is 19 th century quackery that stopped being routinely done half a century ago.
I made it just under the wire.
The interprovincial barriers are why Democrats point to Canada as our future.
Well when you let the Union of Doctors decide how many can be taught each year, of course they are going to short change care over staffing and potentially lowering wage costs.
The CMA needs to be removed from having any input in how the medical education system decides how many doctors get trained.
Nothing changes until that does.
Am old enough to remember when – circa 1990 – the concern was that Canada was graduating too many doctors who, upon graduating and going into practice, would increase health care costs. So the schools cut back on the number of doctors they would train. No one, it seems, took any thought of the demographic issues and that minimizing the number of graduates in the ’90s would mean a possible shortage of mature doctors some 30 odd years later.
Sorry Canadians … but I have received EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Doctors you had hoped would “look like you”. Yes, all my female Doctors are from Mumbai. Sorry Canada. But I am willing to trade straight up … one for one … my “brown doctors with slight Indian accents” … alright, heavy East Indian accents … for a white Canadian Doctor who … “looks like me”.
Thank goodness for all the benefits of immigration!
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