Paging Canada: Your future doctors are fleeing the U.S.

[GardenGnome]

This is an article published in Canada Healthwatch. I've never done this before so I apologize in advance if I've done it incorrectly. I do have to say the article did not surprise me, nor is it likely to surprise others here, but I think it's worth reading.

Well before the Nov. 5th U.S. presidential election, my wife and I had talked about moving to Canada. Two days after the vote, we put the wheels in motion.

I’m a physician, and she’s a newly minted nurse practitioner. We were greeted with mutual enthusiasm, and we both secured jobs rather quickly. Now we live in Canada, and we’re incredibly pleased and grateful.

It’s not a shock that a country that collectively decided the health and well-being of its citizens is essential to social cohesion has an abundance of friendly people. I believe these things are connected.

In return for my appreciation, I’d like to share an important secret with all Canadians: American physicians, especially those under 45, are smart, dedicated, ethical, and desperate to escape a system that not only fails to respect these values but actively undermines them. They are looking for a way out.

The rest of the article can be read here:

https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/02/23/paging-canada-your-future-doctors-are-fleeing-the-u-s?utm_source=medimap&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pnl_feb25_4

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Deplorables don't need doctors, just more pork rinds. I think Canada recognizes US MD credentials almost automatically.n

[Botany]

2. If you're a doctor or nurse or epidemiologist or microbiologist or scientist why stay where you can't do ...

…. what you were trained to do or practice and or work in your specialty?

Canada is a beautiful country and the people are nice besides eating poutine and
pike fishing are enjoyable.

[applegrove]

3. There was a flight of scientists out of Nazi Germany and into the United States

in the 1930s.