While around 9,000 less Nova Scotians are in need of a family doctor, around 10.4 per cent of the province’s population are still on the province’s wait list for a full-time family doctor.
Jim Deleskie is one of many still on the waiting list, and he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis not long ago.
“I have to go for like six MRIs a year,” the Sydney native said.
Though Deleskie does have a doctor in Florida, where he commutes back-and-forth for work, he said when he is home in Nova Scotia not having a family physician can make it difficult when his condition causes him problems.
“I don’t have a way to tell if it’s minor or not, because I don’t have a doctor I can talk to when I’m in Canada,” Deleskie said. “I would have to reach out to my doctor here in Miami and say ‘Hey, this …