Apprenticeships may solve issue

I have to ask, what is the problem with our provincial government when they cannot see that apprenticeship is probably the best way to recruit doctors.

About 50 years ago there was an apprenticeship program for Registered Nurses and later a program that allowed LNA/LPN to train for one year.

It worked so well there was never a shortage of caregivers.

How many people, man or woman, in government/public in 2018 would take on a debt of a half-million dollars to pay for an MD education or more for that of a specialist?

Why not have an apprenticeship program for doctors? If the province would pay for the education of doctors with a contract that would keep them here for 5-10 years as payment back, there would never be a shortage of doctors in all areas of practice. If governments gave a little more to secure doctors with this type of help, we would all benefit.

It seems so simple to me and I am not at the level of Einstein. The old ways of producing what we need is often the best way.

Politicians need to come out of the cloud of all knowing, that gets us, the patients, nowhere.

This may not help me but it would help future generations.

Think about it.

Flora Jean Thompson, Charlottetown