Doctors of BC believes that requirements for employees to provide sick notes to satisfy an employer’s medical absenteeism policy is often an inefficient use of physicians’ time, places an avoidable burden on health sector resources, and unnecessarily exposes the population to communicable diseases by forcing ill patients to leave their homes.
One million people in British Columbia do not have a family doctor.
Doctors of BC is committed to addressing the challenges in our primary care system.
On May 10, 2022, BC’s Health Minister Adrian Dix made the following comments in the legislature:
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet? — William Shakespeare
Doctors of BC congratulates all the physicians who have worked together with partners to recently announce new Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in our province.
Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are being developed with the goals of providing greater patient access to long-term primary care and to give pro
