Number Of Doctors In Canada Who Perform House Calls

[JonDiNesh]

All details concerning about the above question. I may include past, present and future.

[Sqad]

House calls are an anachronism....they are basically useless, a waste of time on the part of the Dr and should be totally abolished in the UK, in my opinion. This would give the patient a higher standard of medicine, but would require greater effort on the part of the patient.

[NoMercy]

Good grief, Sqad. The Geriatricians frequently make domiciliary visits because elderly patients, whether living at home or in a nursing home, are sometimes bed bound.

[Sqad]

NoM...a total waste of time on the part of the geriatricians.
What do they do when they get there? Chat? BP?observe their physical condition?
Nurses now go to University, get a degree and surely they can perform the above tasks and THEN if necessary arrange admission to either casualty or hospital direct.
House calls are an anathema. Out of date, not necessary.

[NoMercy]

Nurses can check obs and wounds, take bloods, yada yada, but can they diagnose complicated things like, for example, impending cord compression?

[Sqad]

"Impending cord compression?"
Childbirth is that?
Could a doctor?
Anyway in my Health Service there would be no home deliveries...all would be delivered in hospital.

[Sqad]

LOL...by the way good morning my love.

[NoMercy]

Spinal cord compression, you sarky devil ;)

[Sqad]

LOL...LOL.

[mikey4444]

Sqad....from my personal experience, with family members, a Doctors house call is effectively over, at least here in South Wales. Whatever District Nurse are called these days seem to have taken over the role for mothers and babies. And locums are used for almost everything else, at least out of hours.

[Old_Geezer]

This was about Canada.

Anyway house calls are a sensible option. If one is ill one should not be expected to make one's way anywhere; because one is ill. Of course it's more convenient for doctors if they can get rid of parts of the job they don't like.

[jno]

never had one, but GPs often seem to use them as an excus for arriving late at surgery in the monring.

Canada, past, present and future? Sorry, that's impossible to calculate. How would anyone find out whether Dr X was doing home visits in Quebec in 1798?

[Sqad]

O_G As you have seen from my first post, I cannot agree with you.
The taxpayer cannot afford £100,000 + a year doctors "swanning " around visiting in the vast majority of cases, medical conditions that a half a century ago, one's grandparents could diagnose and treat.
This is the problem with state financed medicine, the patient feels that all the responsibility is on somebody else.

[Peter Pedant]

none I think

virtually none when I was in Newf in 1980

[EDDIE51]

This is a UK site so few of us would know.
I imagine it is much as in the UK house calls were the norm up to 50 years or so ago but are almost unknown now.

[THECORBYLOON]

Oddly enough, this link refers to past, present and future...https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://utmj.org/index.php/UTMJ/article/viewFile/1429/1252&ved=0ahUKEwjjz6_l9a3SAhUMBMAKHZhXAl0QFggdMAA&usg=AFQjCNF0x1hSPmTY7NsbbYiKDSWVQl0rIQ

[THECORBYLOON]

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://utmj.org/index.php/UTMJ/article/viewFile/1429/1252&ved=0ahUKEwjjz6_l9a3SAhUMBMAKHZhXAl0QFggdMAA&usg=AFQjCNF0x1hSPmTY7NsbbYiKDSWVQl0rIQ

[Dinapal]

My sister and her family have never had house calls from a doctor in Ontario since the mid 60s. You get OHIP and then you call a paramedic if you are too ill to take yourself to the Doctors surgery. If you can't afford OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) or it doesn't come with the job then you can go to a basic charity run hospital. House calls don't happen there.

[gness]

May be different now but my GP in Alberta in the 1980s would make a house call if needed....

[Sqad]

Murdo....quite correct....thank you.