Some female physicians in the U.S. are considering moving north of the border to practice medicine due to the changing political landscape in their country.
  • brendansimms@lemmy.world
    77·
    3 days ago

    With the new fascist us administration, there’s whole swaths of scientists from every discipline being fired from national research orgs. Canada has an oppprtunity to be the recipient of a siginificant US brain drain

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      38·
      3 days ago

      The whole damn world.

      The single best thing about America, its scientific infrastructure, and some jackass who can’t admit he made a typo for coffee is taking an ax to it.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          9·
          3 days ago

          I had a friend that was living on a visa down there and paid $5 for their prescription no matter what it was. I don’t know if that’s universal though.

          Also, the more I look at their wikipedia page, it seems like it’s a mix of private and public. I’m not sure I understand how it works, but it might be like medicaid in the US.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            7·
            3 days ago

            Interesting. We do have pharmacare here for lower income but I really think it should be universal. Divest ourself from the pharmaceutical system of the states.

            And I’ll vote NDP as long as we have to make sure no one has to worry about their teeth.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    I was going to say well that is one way to help get more doctors, but then I saw this quote and I just got mind ducked. Why should a child need to make this statement, I cannot believe how lucky we are here in Canada.

    “My daughter actually said to me, ‘There’s no camera on our school bus. If someone comes to shoot us, they’re not going to know who did it.’” Fleming says she told her school shootings are rare to non-existent in Canada because of gun laws.

  • jeff 👨‍💻@programming.devEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    This isn’t surprising to me. I know that this might not be strictly relevant to this community, but I thought I’d share anyway.

    I live in a conservative state that has restricted a lot of women’s health services(abortions). We had a really great family doctor, she was my wife’s OB, she was my kids pediatrician, she even delivered my youngest. She moved to New Zealand over a year ago and we are still upset over it.

    We have multiple friends and acquaintances that had to go to a neighboring state for a “procedure” because hospitals in my state refuse to do anything that medically is related to abortions. One friend had a miscarriage and needed a procedure to remove remaining tissue in her uterus and she had to go to another state, even though there wasn’t an embryo in there anymore.

    It’s nuts. I’d love to get out of here, but we have young kids and all of our family is local.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      It’s so hard to leave. Not only is it expensive, but the family ties tie us up. My mother in law refuses to move away from my sister in law’s kids. My wife refuses to move away from her mother, because she is elderly and needs our help. I owe a lifelong debt to my wife so I will not leave her.

      My friend is moving to Uruguay. I would love to join him.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    21·
    3 days ago

    Bring your oppressed genders, race, LGBTIA+ workers and educators here to Canada!

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    All physicians should be considering this, given the risks to them of providing basic healthcare to women in some US states. This may also become true of providing healthcare to transgender people.

    Unfortunately Canada is suffering from Conservative premiers working hard to cut public healthcare and privatize it. Canada needs to vote them out and turn that around, while taking this chance to invest and attract medical professionals from the USA. (And don’t elect Conservatives federally either.)

    Canada should also take this opportunity to invest in science and attract scientists from the USA. It could be a real boost in these economically challenging times.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    How much does it cost for someone in the US to get an abortion in Canada? Asking for a friend.

    • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      Health Care costs in Canada (for non-residents of the province) vary pretty wildly. Some provinces also have a mix of public and private clinics.

      So, you’d need to phone around and check. The trip (flights, hotel, food) may be more expensive than the procedure itself.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    10·
    3 days ago

    Go ahead and go through the immigration process only for USA.com to invade us in order to protect and liberate oppressed Canadians.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      3·
      2 days ago

      The war effort will need all the medics it can get. They’re not going to safe harbor, that won’t exist (on one of the good timelines where resistance actually materializes), they’re just heading to friendly territory.

      And, who knows? Maybe Canada just gets some free doctors.

      • Devanismyname@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        We might not be friendly territory for very long. The right wing propaganda machine has reached all corners of the world. Very real chance the cons win this next election.