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@BCPharmacists @bc_pharmacy @DoctorsOfBC @BCFamilyDoctors as pharmacists want to help out patients and doctors more, how about taking on filling out #SpecialAuthority forms (especially the yearly repeats)? or pharmacare forms in general?

Read the article by @drherrling, a FP in BC. Then read the thread by @TRexMD780, a FP in AB. Being a female FP comes with its own set of complications, and we all can tell similar stories. 1/

@roxanneTaylor9 Thanks for asking. You can tell your MLA how much it means for you to have a family doctor and let them know that your vote is impacted by this. Let @adriandix and @jjhorgan know that this matters to you and the people of BC. @bcndp @bcliberals

@drherrling What can I do to make a difference? Because as a patient, I am angry that our BC government does make our family dr's a priority. This needs to change.

My view on life as a family doctor in BC and as a woman in medicine. macleans.ca/longforms/a-do…

Your family doctor makes $22 for your visit, and nothing for reviewing labs, letters etc. Some of these visits take 30min or more. No wonder public healthcare is so affordable for the Government, and there is a shortage of family doctors.

@DrJenGunter I guessed it quickly @ 3:40 this morning because it described my mood after my kids woke me up repeatedly! Wordle 368 2/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Using #Wordle to stay awake while nursing the baby in the middle of the night. Wordle 368 2/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Family medicine is “like running a marathon” bc.ctvnews.ca/the-daily-mara… #everyonedeservesafamilydoctor #bringbackbcfamilydoctors

More on the crisis in BC’s primary care system - an interview I did with @jillreports omny.fm/shows/cknw-spe…

As @JillianHortonMD recently indicated; healthcare is like a house of cards. If the base of primary care is unstable, everyone in the system is impacted.

@fighting4kids5 Teachers have a very challenging job and deserve so much respect and should be paid well. A few considerations - doctors don’t get pension, sick leave, maternity leave, benefits, etc. Teachers don’t pay for the school to be built, the janitor’s wage, toilet paper, computers.

@drherrling Your job sounds just like a teacher, except you get paid way more!!!!!

I am a family doctor in BC. I see 30-40 patients per day (no lunch or coffee breaks, maybe time for a quick run to the bathroom), followed by a few hours of paperwork - charting, lab results, imaging reports, consults, insurance forms, pharmacy queries, urgent calls, etc.

@kazfiona I’m so sorry

@Kamloopskat1 Both - all docs at our clinic continued to see patients in person and via phone/video throughout the pandemic.

@drherrling Are those in person visits? Or phone appointments? Just curious.

@StephaniesFunny @canada2021dgopg @susanmedynski @steveinburnaby whoops, thanks for clarifying :)

@drherrling @canada2021dgopg @susanmedynski @steveinburnaby No, I didn't mean you. :) I meant the IT guy arguing. That was my point: other people get paid OT, doctors don't.

@StephaniesFunny @canada2021dgopg @susanmedynski @steveinburnaby Unfortunately, no … as mentioned, it’s only visits that are compensated. There is NO such thing as overtime, and call is unpaid. A family doctor could be on call every day if on their own; I work in a clinic with other docs so we share call, but it’s not paid.

@canada2021dgopg @susanmedynski @steveinburnaby @drherrling I imagine you also get PAID for your OT and weekend or on-call work, no?

@BCFamilyDoctors #everyonedeservesafamilydoctor #bringbackbcfamilydoctors @BC_GP_Shortage

that we have no locums is the same reason that we have fewer and fewer family doctors - $31.62, before tax, isn’t much when you lose 30-40% to overhead and it is far, far less when you consider the vast number of unpaid hours that keep us from our families and our sleep.