My daughter and I no longer have a family doctor. Dr. Erasmus is leaving. He is an excellent doctor. Letters will be mailed out to us with information on how we can sign up online to be put on a wait list for if and when a replacement doctor is found.
Does your doctor share a clinic with other ones? Maybe they can help.
I havenāt had a traditional family doctor since I moved here. The doctors share the clinic here and in 30 years half a dozen doctors I had have moved away and I ended up with their replacement. If theyāre not available and itās critical you get who is available. Hasnāt been a problem, though the wife did ask to be changed over when one new guy turned out to be a rabid anti-vax nutcase.
She was 60, athsmatic, diabetic, overweight w allergies, worked the till and he told her masking was stoopid, the vax wasnāt necessary.
Yes, there are other doctors in the clinic. Good suggestion, thank you. I have two refills on my current medications so Iāll be fine for a few months. Hopefully one of the other doctors can issue prescriptions.
If you still have access to your current doctor, and the medicines are āfairly regular, run of the millā type meds, you can also request up to a year of refills. They will still be doled out in small batches but you have the reduced stress of wondering where your next prescription will come fromā¦at least for a while.
My family doctor also suggested doctors liked to see the word compliant when looking at profiles of potential patients.
Good luck in finding a new practitionerā¦Iāve heard stories of having to wait years.
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Good suggestion, chien22! Iāll call the office and see if heāll issue a years worth of my medications.
So can anyone answer why when Iām gonna be on Metformin every day for the rest of my life do I need to keep making Dr appts to renew my prescription?
Like I have to get blood tests every 6 mos and the lab is hooked up to the same computer program as the Doctor, so it should notify him if anything changes.
A medical clerk once berated me for not making a new renewal appt 6 weeks before my prescription ran out. 6 weeksā¦
The lab here is one block from the clinic and they used to lose 3/4 faxes regularly. Faxes, In the old days of 2022ā¦
I found the following message online on Facebook. This may be a temporary option.
Need to See a Doctor?
Call 250 624 3333
Pharmasave Prince Rupert
Virtual Doctor
Is this a for profit service?
Why is a business offering the service?
Questions, questionsā¦does anybody know the answers?
Thatās a very good question! I will ask. Without knowing the answer I will assume that as a patient I would be talking to an actual doctor who would need my health card number. Then they would bill for their time. Maybe the government is paying the tab?! Iāll get back to you.
Thanks! Iām hoping itās not another attempt to introduce user pay health care.
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I received a reply from Pharmasave. They said if you have MSP then the service is free. That means that I would just provide my BC health care card number and I will be helped free of charge.
Dr. Merv the Perv Virtual Gynecologist
all appointments free of charge
https://www.bftsplyk,xyz
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Thankfully my doctor isnāt leaving until June. I made an appointment for early April. Iām going to ask for a full year of my medications. Thatāll give me time to search for a new doctor.
Itās sad to realize how far the quality of health care availability has been allowed to deteriorate over time.
Hard to believe there was a time (in living memory) when doctors made house calls.
Glad to know you have the chance to look around for alternatives before your doctor departs.
I truly believe the push to privatize health care is serious problemā¦but well funded and fully supported public health care is the way to go.
Hope things work out well.
Thanks for your well wishes, chien22!
On a somewhat related note I sent e-mails to Jennifer Rice and to Herb Pond about the exodus of doctors in Prince Rupert. Iām waiting for a reply.
I posted the following message on FailBook.
If youāre like me and youāve lost your family doctor here in Prince Rupert then I suggest that you call 8-1-1 and register for a new doctor. New doctors who come to Prince Rupert will be contacting patients from this registry. All youāll need is your health care card number. It was easy to get myself on the registry.
I am on metformin and get blood work every 3 months and my doctor only allows 1 refill so basically I have to phone appointment her every 6 months to get refill and discuss my bloodwork
Rupert is losing 6 doctors of which 1 is a surgeon
I know, Iāve discussed how nothing has changed many times over the last decade. Not much of a discussion at all. Hslf hour in the waiting room to see a doctor for three minutesi
I like how they all must take my blood pressure twice, because Iām a ābig guyā so the first reading of normal must have been an error.
you get to go in my doctor just does phone appointments mostly so 5 minutes on the phone just to get prescription refilled, and the amount never changes