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Originally Posted by GGG
You can’t directly know that. You are attributing things that were likely on motion that may have been marginally accelerated by the current regime. The Family Doctor shortage has been slowly getting worse for many years.
Covid creating a period of high stress causing people to reassess how money,time, and stress interact created a mass disruption on how people assess work and spend money across every industry. This was occurring with or without Kenny and Smith. Did they make it worse? Yes, could Kenny’s polices have been the final straw, sure, is Kenny’s war on healthcare directly affecting you? Certainly not as much as you believe.
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Except we can know it There have been multiple examples of doctors offices posting notices about closing/leaving and specifically mentioning the UCP.
That didn't happen at other times. Sundre, Pincher Creek, Cochrane, Fort McMurray, Three hills etc etc have all posted notices of leaving the practices, closing or leaving the province.
Do we know that every case is due to the UCP, no, but it's clear we have a problem that didn't exist before We personally know of 3 doctors that left the province and several other other young doctors who are currently on the fence about leaving. The younger ones are doing locums etc and haven't committed to staying yet. They aren't going to with someone like Smith in charge and you won't see any notices of them leaving.