The Ontario Medical Association is looking for an apology from the province, after it says hundreds of doctors recently received letters stating they were working too many days or seeing too many patients.
The association is concerned the letters may scare some doctors into reducing their hours, creating delays in patient care in a time of crisis when Ontarians need more family doctors and medical services, said Dr. Rebecca Hicks, president of the Ontario Medical Association.
“The hours that we’re working to see patients, the extra hours we’re working on evenings and weekends, that’s not fraud. That’s patient care. That’s our job,” she said. “We should be supporting physicians who are doing that, not sending them warnings of investigations.
