A Canadian family doctor originally planned to retire at age 72. He's putting it off because he hasn't been able to find any physicians willing to take over his practice.
While most Canadians retire in their 60s, Dr. Peter Petrosoniak is approaching his 74th birthday, and continues to serve as a family physician for some 1,400 patients in Lindsay, Ont., with another 400 on an ad hoc basis.
He is worried that if he can’t recruit someone this year, he won’t have the will or the stamina to continue, and will stop seeing his long-time patients. “After you finish you're seeing your patients during the daytime ...there are reports to be written or consultation requests to be sent to specialists. There's forms to fill out and it just is almost 24 hours if you allowed yourself to do that,” said Petrosoniak.
The region has about eight retirements, Snider said, as well as 10 clinic closures over the last four to five years,. Snider says she has been trying to recruit 15 to 18 new physicians without success. An estimated 6.5 million Canadians don’t have primary care, according to a national survey released last April, with the numbers growing monthly as family practice physicians move to other areas of medicine, like emergency work andThe Ontario Medical Association recently held a news conference warning family medicine has become “unsustainable,” because of growing amounts of paperwork and, difficult referral systems for patients who need specialty care and rising costs.
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