Top Ten Myths 1. Canadians are in fact free to choose their own primary care physician. More generally, Governments in Canada have been loath to intervene directly in the patient-physician relationship. So, if the patient wishes to change physicians or to have different family members see different physicians, they are free to do so.
Canadian physicians are very dissatisfied with the system.
There are frustrations, of course, as there are in any system. But the vast majority of MDs believe the system is fundamentally sound. Indeed, there is reason to believe that many Canadian physicians who went to the U.S. in the 1970s and early 1980s have in fact returned. Polls in the U.S. suggest that Canadians give their health system very high marks. If the system is so great, why do so many patients decide to come to the U.S. or face dying on waiting lists for surgery.