When I arrived in 1968, there were only 11 general practitioners serving a population of approximately 20,000 people, and all but one were Canadian-trained. There were also four visiting specialists, but they all lived and worked mainly in Vancouver and New Westminster. Now 43 years later, there are 72 general practitioners/family physicians and 29 of these received their training in another country, and of the 41 specialists, about half are also trained abroad.
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