Mizz Teapot

We live in Peterborough, Ontario, also no doctor, waiting list are for ever.
Don't like the ER, very busy, once I've waited for 5 hours.
Walk-in-clinic :scared:

NewCalgarian

I can appreciate your problem - it took us ages to find a Doc. Hope things work out for you soon.

CalgaryBlade

I guess it's patchy, it took us a day and the clinic is about 1 mile away.

ClareBC

Have you tried this link - it seems that there are doctors accepting patients in Kelowna (well, according to this https://www.cpsbc.ca/cps/physician_d...Disclaimer=yes)

all the best
Clare

Calgal

I'll second that! It's bitter sweet.....

Colsgirl

Hi Claire,

Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen it before. Either the site is out-of-date or they have been clearing out their filing systems. I have just looked at my lists and I have rung both of these surgeries before. I am going to ring them first thing in the morning, hopefully we'll get in with at least one. If not I'll keep ringing around. I am hoping that one day I will get through just as someone is leaving a practice. I am wondering if the problem is because people chop and change doctors. How does a doctor know if a patient has registered somewhere else? I get the impression that the medical records aren't as centralised as the Health Authority and the Primary Care Groups keep them in the UK.

NessieOggy

Kelowna General Hospital used to have lists of all the new doctors in the area that were opening practices. I have seen the lists at certain walk-in clinics as well.

There was a new practice that opened up in the Capri Mall fairly recently ... Dr. Morris is one of the physicians there. Also, Drs Tereposky & Armstrong opened their practice to 2 more doctors recently.

I notice the Capital News advertises new offices periodically and you may be able to get word of a doctor accepting new clients that way as well.

Good luck

Oggy

NewCalgarian

Wish I could say the same!

AnyaT

Provinces (who oversee delivery of health care, it is not on a national level like the UK) are working on electronic health record systems whereby there will be a central database physicians can check a patient's medical history and which doctors they have seen. It is a bit slow in coming for various reasons, though Alberta's is the most advanced. (Not much help for you, but just information in case you are interested).

I've been in Toronto for a year and a half and I don't have a family doctor either, though I must admit I haven't looked that hard. Your provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons website, which Clare posted, should have the most up-to-date information on who is accepting new patients. Re: the walk-in clinics, I have never had a problem with them. Did you actually go to the clinic and see a room full of junkies? Clinics are not aimed at the dregs of society you described but are used by everyone who either does not have a doctor or can't get an immediate appointment with theirs, and are an alterative to a hospital emergency dept.

ClareBC

I agree with Anya. We used the walk in clinic with my visiting neice who had a lurgy when she was on holiday. We were very impressed with the clinic, the doctor, everything. $57.20 well spent!

Clare

Colsgirl

Yes I did walk in (and walked straight out again). I was talking to a receptionist today about the clinic I went to and she said I should never have been told to go to that one.

Airseir

Thats not fair.

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Colsgirl

After going to 5 different family doctors today, we now have a family doctor. The last one I visited agreed to take us on. The doctor is lovely and ironically it is the clinic we wanted to join in the first place.

The doctor was telling is that there are 10,000 people in Kelowna without a regular doctor. Those are people with a fixed address and so do not include any homeless people. She also asked me not to tell anyone that they had taken us on as they are not taking any more patients. They made an exception as it was my 4th visit in as many weeks - persistence pays off. I have lost track of how many clinics I have visited. The other problem is that many of them don't have waiting lists, so it is the luck of happening to visit on the right day.

For anyone living in Kelowna, Someone suggested Capri medical centre - they aren't taking on new patients, neither is Broadwater clinic on Gordon, Lakeshore clinic also on Gordon or the clinic on the intersection of Enterprise and Spall.

Snave

Snap! I was going to say exactly the same thing - meeting my wife.

dbd33

I don't doubt it's true but it's a very dodgy statistic. I moved to Canada in 1981, nothing was wrong with me so I didn't register with a doctor. Two years ago I got nagged into registering but for the decades inbetween I was nominally without a family doctor. If I had known I was contributing to the Conservative argument that the system has collapsed and needs privatising, as shown by people not having doctors, I would have made an effort to get one.