Upon his retirement, Cooper emptied his belonging from his office.
When Dr. Alec Cooper was diagnosed with ALS last year, he had to step away from his practice and 1,800 patients. The family doctor was one of the last anglophone family physicians in Quebec City.Dr. Alec Cooper and Dr. Mary Delafield are both retiring just months apart. That's worrying some patients, who wonder whether they'll be able to find another English-speaking doctor.When Dr.
" kind of couldn't believe it," said Dolan. "What do you do if you get seriously ill and you don't have a family doctor assigned to you? Like, I don't even know what that road looks like but from where I sit, it doesn't look very rosy at all." "Family practice is getting harder and harder and we seem to be often blamed by the powers that be for many of the woes of the medical system and it starts to feel burdensome," said Delafield.She says that as far as she knows, there are no other anglophone family doctors in the city, an assertion shared by Cooper.She says she has been working at capacity and was unable to take on new patients.
The English-speaking community in Quebec City is also growing, says Walling, with a total of 17,000 people.The health authority offers interpreters at the request of physicians or the organization providing care, and according to data from Quebec City's health authority, the number of requests for English interpreters more than tripled since 2019.
Gagnon says she has become strong in French over her past two decades, but advocating for herself or her children in her second language is still a hurdle. Right now, she says she's out of options, and if her health declines, she might have to choose private health care."I feel very much under attack in this province just for being an anglophone … I feel like now when I probably need it most health-care system will fail me."
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