Patients of a family physician in Charlottetown area are searching for alternatives after receiving letters that they had been randomly selected to be dropped from the doctor’s patient list. P.E.I.’s medical society calls it a symptom of an over-burdened health-care system.
“I was shocked. I had to read it twice,” said Heather MacLean, who received a letter from her doctor last month. “Then my heart kind of went out to him too … obviously he is feeling very stressed and burned out.”
The letter, dated June 15, from Dr. Mitchell Stewart, included the doctor’s candid assessment of his workload and personal stress levels.
“I inherited a very large practice … I
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