This American doctor is stepping for BC – why is here
For a Canadian-born doctor, who has been practicing family medicine in Colorado for the last six years, his next career step is a kind of home return.
Muthna Yacob said, “It is like my long dream to come back to Canada.” “It is hockey for me and in those hills that are originally my antidepressants.”
This province is working to make us easier for trained doctors and nurses, with its credibility recognized in BC, a process that the Health Ministry says now takes days rather than months.
After talking to some physician recruitments at a conference in Vancouver, Yacob almost signed with a clinic in Ontario, where he was born and spent part of his childhood. But it was the natural beauty of BC that wooed him, his wife and his dog, Hudson.
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He will join a medical clinic owned by Colewood city near Victoria, this decline.
“He wants to give back and come back home,” Health Minister Josi Osborne said during a press conference at the clinic on Friday.
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The YACOUB was rapidly collapsed with the US’s private health care system, where insurance companies often determine the kind of care that a patient receives.
The 36 -year -old said, “In a few days it seems that you are treating the insurance company and not what is in the best interest of the patient, yet to meet the patient and their demands.” “And so you are choosing between your discretion and are simply obedient – and most of us are like getting sick.”
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However, the largest catalyst, US President Donald Trump’s election and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Junior was an election for anti -Watchment status.
“Are we going to be able to work morally and treat patients as we really follow science?” Yacob asked. “Or are we going to be forced to comply with? And given the huge nature of the administration, we are really worried that it is going to be the latter.”
The BC government is inspiring the $ 5 million advertisement campaign targeting health care workers in the state of Washington, Oregon and California.
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The BC’s strategy is optimistic to recruit the co-medical director of the Colwood Clinic, Jesse Pewarchuk, American doctors and nurses.
“This is the first to hope that there will be many recruitments,” Pivarchuk said, which also runs the Aroga Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in the nearby View Royal. “The province’s strategy to recruit from Washington, Oregon and California – and I will put forward that they should also look at Colorado – in fact there is a stroke of talent.”
Pewarchuk said that BC simply cannot train enough doctors and nurses to maintain our aging and increasing demand for growing population.
“Number of health care doctors in American dwarf Canada. So it is a very rich ground to recruit.”
For Yacob, who has dual canady and American citizenship, the process of going to Canada is directly ahead.
However, American-born doctors will have to navigate Canada’s immigration system, connecting another potential roadblock.
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This year, the federal government reduced the number of skilled workers, who could bring 8,000 to 4,000 through the BC Provincial Nominated Program.
Osborne says that this is an issue that the province has raised with Ottawa.
“It has been a challenge that the provincial enrolled program – the only way is any control of British Columbia that is capable of coming and working in our province – its capacity has decreased.”
The province is planning to reserve a quarter of those places for health care workers.
For questions about a salary difference between Canada and the US, Jacob says that the salary being offered by the Coalwood Clinic is compared to what was doing in Colorado. He says that pension was also a major draw.
But the final decision came down to values and quality of life.
“I think one of the strongest things was actually pulled into this field.”
