Greetings!
Sorry for the slow Blue Sky Family Medicine posting, we have been a wee bit busy with the above and other pressing health care matters in community.
Observing all that is going on with the current primary care crisis in B.C., Canada and even around the world concerns me.
https://bcmj.org/editorials/evolving-crisis-primary-care
It is a very complex issue.
As a Nanaimo Family Doctor who has had the honour and privilege of taking care of my practice of patients since 1993, I have witnessed and have felt helpless (sometimes hopeless) watching this most unfortunate and preventable event from happening. I have written and spoken out many times over the years warning that this was the future of community health and care in Nanaimo if we did not change course.
I am a solution-focussed Doctor and again, will not spend any more time saying that “I told them so” and they did not listen. What I have learned over the years is that the planning and implementing of health and care in B.C. is political and not scientifically driven. 😦
That’s where we went and will continue to go wrong in health care and in society.
Sorry for the profanity, but we, even as a planet, not merely locally, are at the tipping point of flourishing or perishing. Maybe it’s already too late?
Nope, over the years we have been reflecting and retooling. Today we are ready, so let’s bring it! All of it!
That’s how much I believe (in the science) that healing families (and our world including the Environment) with Family Medicine is the right way.
So let’s get back to it. Nanaimo now has 7 Family Medicine Learning Centres (see first pic above) which is a good start to help enhance and evolve community longitudinal, relational team-based Family Medicine teaching for today and tomorrow!
We are in this together… so stay tuned!
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