This U.S. doctor is making the move to B.C. here’s why [Video]

For one Canadian-born doctor, who has been practicing family medicine in Colorado for the last six years, his next career move is a sort of homecoming.

“It’s been kind of a long-time dream of mine to come back to Canada,” said Muthanna Yacoub. “For me it’s hockey and being in the hills that are basically my antidepressant.”

The province has been working to make it easier for U.S.-trained doctors and nurses to have their credentials recognized in B.C., a process the Ministry of Health says now takes days instead of months. 

After speaking to a few physician recruiters at a conference in Vancouver, Yacoub almost signed on with a clinic in Ontario, where he was born and spent part of his childhood. But it was the natural beauty of B.C. that enticed him, his wife and their dog, Hudson.  

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