Emergency physician worries primary care needs could strain ER resources, as patients search for new doctors
This story is part of Situation Critical, a series from CBC British Columbia reporting on the barriers people in this province face in accessing timely and appropriate health care.
Dr. Anna Chodyra has crossed land and sea to practise medicine.
Originally from Poland, the 47-year-old first immigrated to Canada as an international medical graduate in 2001.
She did her residency in Calgary before crossing the Rockies in 2006, when she relocated to the small city of Port Moody in the Tri-Cities area of B.C.’s Lower Mainland, just east of Vancouver. She worked there for 13 years before following the Barnet Highway east to Coquitlam, where she joined Meadowbrook Family Practice.
The family doctor said she currently has a patient panel of 2,100 people — and she isn’t sure where any of them will go when she, and her family, relocate to New Zealand this fall.
