With the GP shortage, physicians in Canada can afford to pick and choose patients:

Apparently the workload has become too severe for some doctors and they would prefer not to see patients that require too much work (you know, the folks that are sick and really need a doctor). What I thought was most telling was the statement from one recently licensed doctor who said he was performing these interviews so that he could limit his daily schedule of patients to between 30-40 per day. Otherwise he said it was just too much work. The story went on to say that there is now a shortfall of doctors in Canada, and they can afford to be choosey when it comes to patients. There is now a glut of’orphan’ patients in Canada who have been forced to apply 30-40 times for care from a doctor and in some cases have been’let go’ by their current physicians because of their recurring ailments.