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laundry_queen

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6. I have always thought

Reply to EllieBC (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 07:03 AM

Mar 2016

there should be some kind of requirement for specialists to have to service remote areas for a certain amount of time. I think our government sometimes is too 'hands off' when it comes to where doctors should go. I know one area I lived in, a bunch of doctors were always busy trying to recruit other doctors from their own country, because there were none here in Canada that wanted to practice there. The entire town was staffed with doctors from the one country. There even were a few specialists. I do remember thinking...why are no doctors educated in Canada wanting to work up here?

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.... SamKnause Mar 2016 #1

That is staggering, considering a population of 8000+ Blus4u Mar 2016 #2

I just can't wrap my head around it. EllieBC Mar 2016 #3

Many of those remote communities laundry_queen Mar 2016 #4

But how do you get the professionals there? EllieBC Mar 2016 #5

I have always thought laundry_queen Mar 2016 #6