Of 439 family physicians in Toronto who answered a survey question about their plans for the future, 77, or 17.5 per cent, said they were thinking of winding down their practice
warning that more residents of Canada’s largest city could soon have trouble finding a doctor.
“To me, that was a really surprising number,” said Tara Kiran, the lead author of the study, which was published Monday in the journal Canadian Family Physician.published in September, Dr. Kiran and her fellow researchers at Unity Health Toronto and the non-profit research institute ICES mined Ontario Health Insurance Plan billing data to discover that almost 3 per cent of the province’s doctors had stopped practising during the first six months of the pandemic, about twice the normal rate.
“Here it was 17 per cent, almost one in five doctors, considering closing their practice,” she said. “If you’d asked me for an estimate before doing the survey, I would not have estimated something nearly that high.”If more Toronto doctors than expected leave traditional cradle-to-grave family medicine in the next five years, it will exacerbate a human resources crisis that is already hobbling medical services from coast to coast.
“Emergency departments are overwhelmed,” said Dr. Zacharias, a family doctor who worked in an Orillia, Ont., emergency department for years. “I never thought we’d see the day that emergency departments would close their doors. But if that’s what’s happening in conjunction with our current family doctor shortage, and that family doctor shortage is only getting worse, it’s not good.”
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