Both physicians believe the issue is widespread across the city, they told the CBC. “We have been basically inundated with requests from our civil servant patients requesting various sorts of accommodation,” Matin explained. He and his colleagues argued that the volume of accommodation requests takes away time that could be better spent caring for patients in need of medical treatment. Increased paperwork for physiciansDoctors like Matin and Duong perceive the situation as a mismanagement of resources. Duong told the CBC that the practice is the federal government “downloading” its workplace accommodation challenges onto family doctors, rather than addressing these concerns through its own channels.
