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In Vancouver there are GPs with private practices as you would expect in any city.



I didn't realize that - I must have confused Canada with another country - Britain? - that outlaws private medical care.




The only practical difference in accessibility between "private" GPs and clinics is that many GPs in private practice don't accept new patients because they can't service them. No money changes hands in either case. As I understand it, finding a Dr. to "take you on" can be a problem in the US too.

The website of the College of Physicians and Surgeons offers a Dr. Search service https://www.cpsbc.ca/node/263.
A search for family Drs in Vancouver that are taking new patients gives 37 results. Removing the filter gave me over 1100 responses.

Truly "private" clinics (that "operate" on a cash basis) are still new and in a bit of gray zone legally speaking. The gov't has vacillated on how they should be allowed to work as the big bogeyman is the development of a two-tier system that will pull the best Drs away from the public system. Private surgery in Vancouver
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