After losing her family doctor, Valerie Vaughan-Hines now worries about how she ll manage her health and her Type II diabetes, which requires regular check-ins with her doctor for blood work and other evaluations.
It's bad enough to learn you're losing your family doctor, says one Nova Scotia woman, but being asked to pay hundreds of dollars to access years of medical records adds insult to injury.
HALIFAX The Nova Scotia government tabled a bill Tuesday aimed at making life easier for medical professionals by reducing some licensing fees and limiting when employers can require sick notes from their workers.
Breaking records can be a good thing but patients aren’t impressed by the record number of people on Nova Scotia’s waitlist for a family doctor or nurse practitioner.