Well I am not a public health politics expert! but in my case I wish that there was a more easier method to reach a health care practitioner once you move. For example, I used to have a family doctor in my former province, I moved because of work, so I start from 0. And it is difficult to find a family doctor in Canada. But for my luck, I was lucky again, I applied for a family doctor and he accepted us, even being full. I don't know what was the criteria to be accepted, but maybe my condition and/or the fact that we have a 18 months old baby with use influenced a bit. They should create a way that even with this not availability of family physicians, to facilitate the life of chronic disease patients, maybe for those patients the prescription being accepted in all provinces? I don't know we can think lots of different things but I don't know-how are easily implemented.
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The situation is similar to France. it is damned hard to find a family doctor when you don't have one, and things need to be restarted at every change of place (believe me, I moved more than 10 times in my life, so that I know what I am talking about).
Where are you know in Canada? I know a bit how it works in Quebec as my in-laws are from there, but I have no idea about the rest of the country.
I agree. In your case, an online appointment may work out smoothly and nicely, for instance. However, I am by far not a public health expert too :D
I was closer to Quebec before when I was living in Atlantic Canada, now I am in the praries, in Alberta. Where I was living was the only official bilingual province in Canada, New Brunswick. I was investing a lot in my French because of that. Now I am living in a place where no one speaks French. So weird! The only guy that I practice french with, now, is the security guy from my job.
The language situation in Canada is very interesting. My impression is that for many, they just either hate the other language and anything related to it, or at best don't care about it. This is also what is on-going in other countries (that I know) with several official languages. I think here about Belgium.
I believe this two-language situation should be used instead as a strength, but it is rarely the case.
everyone thinks about that...it is crazy. It is part of the government's fault as well. For example I was living in New Brunswick, it is the only officially bilingual province. It should be paradise right? But no. You have two health authorities (francophone and one anglophone), the anglophone schools have what they call French Immersion, but it looks like it isn 't enough to transform kids into bilinguals in most cases. So Lots of jobs requires you to be bilingual and the anglophones gets some anger about that and they hate francophones. In the other hand, the francophones there feel also the pressure to learn English , and even if they know English, they prefer to talk in French; I heard people suing nurses in the hospital because they didn't talk in french with them. It is a crazy situation like you mentioned...
This really sounds like Belgium (in which I have spent more than 20 years of my life :D ).