Canadians need doctors. These strategies from around the country aim to find them – CBC

What’s being done from coast to coast to coast to find solutions to the primary care crisis

Feb 25, 2025

Kristen Walsh pores over the journal she uses to log everything she can about managing her multiple chronic medical conditions without a family doctor.

Walsh, who lives in Conception Bay South, N.L., just outside St. John’s, has ankylosing spondylitis, a rare type of arthritis, as well as polycystic kidney disease and ADHD.

She sees specialists for her kidney disease and arthritis, and sometimes visits nurse practitioners to help manage her conditions. But she says a family doctor would help see the whole picture.

“Because while everyone’s kind of looking at their own individual piece of the puzzle, no one is putting all the pieces together to say, like, you’re this person as a whole and these are all of your conditions and these are all the medications you’re on.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/the-cure-solutions-for-canadian-doctor-shortage-1.7465633