An estimated one million people in B.C. do not have a family doctor, about 100,000 on the south Island.
Dr. Martina Scholtens left family practice to become a psychiatrist and is now faced with a new dilemma — how to treat patients who don’t have the support of a family doctor.
“Being a family doctor for 12 years and experiencing all the challenges with that work in our current system in B.C., I could not imagine myself working in family practice for another 30 years,” said Scholtens.“If the system had been different and changes had been made, I could have very well stayed a family physician, so in a way, I feel my own personal responsibility with respect to the shortage,” said Scholtens.
While working as a resident psychiatrist, the first question she asked patients was whether they had a family doctor “because of how much impact that would have on their care going forward,” said Scholtens. “I knew that their care and prognosis was so much better” with a family doctor. “But if I see patients without a family doctor then it reduces my capacity to see patients in general because I don’t have the family doctor that I can refer back to, who can kind of quarterback the care.”
“It’s seeing that frustration every day and knowing it doesn’t have to be that way, knowing that 30 years ago it wasn’t like this, and we just let it happen,” said Peter Scholtens. “It’s ridiculous.” On Oct. 4, that doctor saw his patient through her death. On that last home visit, although they usually spoke in English, he said a few words to her in German. He knew it was her first language and that it would bring comfort to the patient and her grieving daughters whom he had known since they were ages 2 and 12, said Lush.She spoke at a B.C.
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