American doctors look to relocate to Canada to avoid the Trump administration

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American doctors look to relocate to Canada to avoid the Trump administration

NPR
By Brett Kelman
May 29, 2025

Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was born, raised, and trained in the United States, packed up his family and left the country.

The CDC team responsible for aggregating and disseminating best practices around contraception has been cut.

Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of fears he might face reprisal from the Trump administration if he returns to the U.S. He said he feels some guilt that he did not stay to resist the Trump agenda but is assured in his decision to leave. Too much of America has simply grown too comfortable with violence and cruelty, he said.

"Part of being a physician is being kind to people who are in their weakest place," Michael said. "And I feel like our country is devolving to really step on people who are weak and vulnerable."

Adelaide Tovar, a postdoctoral geneticist at the University of Michigan, prepares cell samples in a science laboratory on campus. Tovar is one of about 200 early-career scientists who will lose research funding because the Trump administration ended their grant program.

Michael is among a new wave of doctors who are leaving the United States to escape the Trump administration. In the months since Trump was reelected and returned to the White House, American doctors have shown skyrocketing interest in becoming licensed in Canada, where dozens more than normal have already been cleared to practice, according to Canadian licensing officials and recruiting businesses.

The Medical Council of Canada said in an email statement that the number of American doctors creating accounts on physiciansapply.ca, which is "typically the first step" to being licensed in Canada, has increased more than 750% over the past seven months compared with the same time period last year — from 71 applicants to 615. Separately, medical licensing organizations in Canada's most populous provinces reported a rise in Americans either applying for or receiving Canadian licenses, with at least some doctors disclosing they were moving specifically because of Trump.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5414345/american-doctors-look-to-relocate-to-canada-to-avoid-the-trump-administration

[mountaineer]

Practicing medicine in Canada is easy. Doctors never have to see any patients.

[DB]

Bye.

[Smokin Joe]

Will Canada conscript them?

Can we send recommendations?

[DB]

Will Canada conscript them?

Can we send recommendations?

Some lessons have to be learned the hard way. Let the actual learning begin...

[mountaineer]

New York Post:

Canadian woman, 96, puts ad in newspaper to find primary care doctor: ‘Time is increasingly of the essence’
By Gabrielle Fahmy   
Published May 31, 2025, 9:10 a.m. ET

A 96-year-old Canadian woman was so exasperated with the glacial pace of her nation’s universal healthcare system — she posted a wanted ad in her local newspaper to find a primary care doctor.

“I am apparently somewhere in the 80,000’s in the physician waiting list, and so time is increasingly of the essence,” retired fourth-grade teacher Dorothy Lamont wrote in her classified ad titled “Seeking a Physician” in the May 23 edition of the Halifax Chronicle Herald in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

“I am 96 years old, of sound mind and body relative to my advanced age, and have been without a physician for nearly three years,” it reads. ...

The Great White North currently has around 46,000 family physicians, and a recent study by Health Canada found that another 23,000 would be needed for every Canadian to have a primary care doctor.

One of the reasons for the doctor shortage is that many doctors leave for better paying jobs in the US. ...

Frankly, I'm surprised the Canadian government permits anyone over 70 to have medical care. That's why Medical Assistance in Dying was created, after all.

[DB]

New York Post:Frankly, I'm surprised the Canadian government permits anyone over 70 to have medical care. That's why Medical Assistance in Dying was created, after all.

Well, you can bet that she'd get right in to do that...

[Hoodat]

Please let this happen.  Go to Canada.  Work for the government, not the patient.  All for an income lower than your student loan payments.