Something for America to think about: How has Canada’s doctor shortage affected me? I had cancer (for years) that went undiagnosed. I had a stage 2 borderline stage 3 cancer; had my condition been diagnosed earlier, I may have had a stage 1 cancer,...
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Something for America to think about: How has Canada’s doctor shortage affected me? I had cancer (for years) that went undiagnosed. I had a stage 2 borderline stage 3 cancer; had my condition been diagnosed earlier, I may have had a stage 1 cancer, or been pre-cancerous. At the time I developed very troubling symptoms, we had just moved to Cambridge, Ontario, which is notoriously short of doctors. At the time we lived there, over 10,000 people did not have a family doctor. The only option was a walk-in clinic; really, more of a sit-in clinic, because they were so overwhelmed with patients, you would wait hours to be seen. When CBC featured the clinic on a piece about the doctor shortage, the over-60 doctor who ran it was talking retirement. I shudder to think how bad the situation would be without that clinic. But back to my cancer. For 8 months, every Monday morning, I phoned the local hospitals (In Cambridge, Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo) to find out if any doctors were accepting... See less 
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