A notice on the college website states that Dr. Esther Park, whose licence was restricted to office-based gynecology in December, will effectively stop practising medicine this Wednesday.
‘We know that there's this healthcare crisis, and it's amplified in rural communities, and so I don't think we have the time to wait for someone else to do this work,’ the society’s past president said.
Unlike Quebec, other Canadian provinces—Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan—have decided to facilitate the recruitment process to cash in on the potential surge in interest.