Nurse Practitioners will also play a role and they don't show up in doctors per 100K numbers. I have a good friend who is one in BC and 5 years ago he had to move across the province to get a job, but now they're everywhere and they're creating more positions every month.
They're not necessarily significantly cheaper than GPs, but they're definitely easier to train. Any practising nurse with 3 years experience can do 2 more years of school to become one. And they can cover a lot of the walk-in clinic type roles.
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