What we heard about advanced skills . . . The SRPC and the CFPC co-hosted a special conference day at the SRPC's annual conference in St. John's, Nfld. in April 1999. This article contains some quotes that cover the range of the discussions that took place during the day. For an account of the meeting see the article on page 160 . The presence of these special skills has a huge unexplained and undescribed effect on the community when they are removed.
Communities lose their ability to attract doctors.
The health care becomes triage and that would be a dramatic change for rural Canada. It is unsupported. There is no training, no maintenance of competence. These doctors are invisible in the institutions of Canadian medical training. These programs are maldistributed and exist where there is need.