OTTAWA: The Canadian medical system has been losing specialists to the United States for year, now, reports Colin Nickerson of the Boston Globe, in 1994, ‘the net loss of doctors was in a nation that has 55,000. Of96 doctors who graduated in family medicine from the University of Toronto last year, 34 went to the United States or plan to.
“We’ve got a crisis on our hands, but the government doesn`t believe it says the head, Dr. Walter Rosser.
Canadian doctors are concerned about more than their own incomes, They approve of free medical care for all but, according to one doctor, the system is “overextended, underfinanced, and the ‘government keeps clawing back making its here, cuts there and limiting the care and tests that doctors may order.” However, state officials denied such a massive exit of Physicians.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 17, 1996
