Doctor says N.B. health-care system ‘sinking faster than the Titanic’
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Dr. Mark Wait from Moncton voiced his frustrations with the health-care system on social media: 'I just wanted to vent my frustrations with what I've been seeing day after day.'
Dr. Mark Waite, who practices family medicine in the Greater Moncton Area, said New Brunswick’s health-care system “is sinking faster than the Titanic” in a social media post on Tuesday.
Between his own clinic, two after-hours clinics and hospital rounds, he says he works well over 50 hours a week.
“I just wanted to vent my frustrations with what I’ve been seeing day after day. I mean, the problem has been building up for some time. When I started five years ago, there were issues that just continue to grow worse,” he said in an interview on Wednesday.
In his post, he called attention to long wait times patients are experiencing across the health-care sector, whether it be in the emergency room or the waiting list to be assigned a family doctor.
He said his staff was feeling burnt out because of how often they have to turn away frustrated patients from his overcrowded practice, or from highly sought after appointments at walk-in clinics.
“And that list just keeps growing in the amount of people who are asking me if I’ll take them on. And I’d love to, but I mean, I just don’t want to burnout myself when it comes to the walk-in clinics,” he said.
Dr. Brian Davidson, who also practices family medicine, recently had to close his after-hours clinic in Riverview, in part due to a lack of available doctors.
“There are lots of reasons why we can’t recruit physicians in the after hours clinic,” Davidson explained on Wednesday. “One is remuneration; another part is lifestyle – people don’t really want to work in the afterhours (clinics),” he said.
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