A new survey on the experiences of people in the province with health care comes as no surprise to the New Brunswick Medical Society. People by and large are satisfied with the care they get from their family doctors but when they have an urgent problem, only 30 per cent say they can get an appointment on the same day or even the next.
Medical Society President Dr. Allison Kennedy tells CHSJ News there should be a change in the way primary care is delivered with a more collaborative approach in patient care involving several health care professionals and we need to recruit more doctors.
The survey also finds 29 per cent of people in the province suffering from 3 or more chronic conditions never talk to anyone in health care about what they can do to make their lives better.
Dr. Kennedy maintains medical school grads like the idea of a more collaborative approach to treating patients so changing the system might get us more family doctors.
