Conversation: The conversation between human and AI assistant.
[|Human|] I am looking for a female doctor in downtown Vancouver as my family doctor of 20 plus years left her practice. I am 69 years old and suffer from COPD and asthma. I need physical exam and would prefer a woman doctor. Thank you very much. Suzanne Newman
[|AI|]  Thank you for asking Chat Doctor. My name is Chat Doctor. Since you are in search of a doctor for your COPD & Asthma treatment and need physical examination and prefer a female doctor for that purpose since your family doctor left her practice, welling this scenario, the best first step is to ask family and friends as sometime Doctor take patients from referral of their existing patients. You have mentioned downtown Vancouver, an approach for you is searching doctors online, I am sending you a link, just have a look at that. And you can search doctor online from websites like this.https://www.cpsbc.ca/just go to this site, and you will see a column "find a physician", it has a small option "advanced search, just click on that and then choose your doctor near your locality (North Vancouver, west Vancouver, Vancouver) while keeping your search narrow by just clicking family physician/specialist and Female gender ... you will get a list of doctors with the information whether they are accepting new patients or not ... Hope this may help you. Let me know if anything is not clear. Thanks.