Why some female physicians are eyeing a move to Canada from the U.S.
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.
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
Maybe we get the ones back who were chasing money.
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.
Mindfucked*
Come to Canada. We need more physicians in general. Welcome!!
We will respect your expertise too!
Let's roll out the welcome wagon folks!
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.
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.
Bring your oppressed genders, race, LGBTIA+ workers and educators here to Canada!
Don't forget to renounce your US citizenship. It costs just $2300 + income tax on everything you have
This is why you wait until the wars start and it's free.
Aaaand your USD is worthless
Could you explain this? I don't know the context.
A post (that now appears to be deleted) of a American that moved to Singapore and renounced their citizenship after obtaining Singaporean citizenship. Apparently the OP there was charged $2300 to do it and the post was a digital receipt for that.
I'm just spitballing here, but why would you pay taxes on your way out? I mean torch the passport, make an afternoon of it by all means. But pay a fee and tax? Just leave right?
Burning a passport doesn't renounce your citizenship. You still have to pay taxes. If not, they'll either extridite you or arrest you when you visit the US.
You can get out of it, but you have to pay expatriation fees, including an exit tax on your assets
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.
Yes please.
How much does it cost for someone in the US to get an abortion in Canada? Asking for a friend.
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.
Fortunately its legal to sleep in a tent in BC
It’s about $700 without insurance (medical, not surgical).
hope transferring/acquiring new practicing license won't be much of a hassle
Go ahead and go through the immigration process only for USA.com to invade us in order to protect and liberate oppressed Canadians.
Don't come to Canada. The us is gonna take us over soon. Go to Europe.
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.
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.