Number of specialized doctors who are unemployed growing, study finds | Toronto Star

Number of specialized doctors who are unemployed growing, study finds | Toronto Star.

Patients wait over a year to see consultants, especially in rural areas. Patients and physicians are frustrated.  This article adds gasoline to the fire.

My Uncle, a rural physician, suggests a central registry of consultants listing their wait times and ability to see referrals.

Lack of operating room time keeps many surgeons unemployed.  Patients wait; surgeons work part-time; the system ‘saves’ money.

Intolerable.