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Canadian Doctors Feel Overwhelmed
In a nationwide survey of more than 20,000 doctors and doctors-in-training from across the country, 75 per cent reported that inadequate funding of the healthcare system, a shortage of physicians and other health professionals, paperwork and bureaucracy are curtailing the amount and level of care they want to provide patients.
While that attitude was expressed by all the specialties, it is perhaps most pronounced among family physicians, simply because of their number and the nature of their practice: almost half of Canada's roughly 60,000 doctors are family practitioners and the specialty usually seen most often by patients, said Dr. Calvin Gutkin, executive director and CEO of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
"I think the frustration remains related to just the capacity within the family medicine community to address all of the needs of the population," said Gutkin, whose organization conducts the triennial survey with the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, reports CBC News.
"Physicians in most communities across the country are doing their best to try to see as many patients as they can," he said Tuesday. "But still, many of them have had to limit the number of new patients they can take.
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