Medicentres Inc. Alberta and Ontario questions about management

Here's a red flag: "It was a situation Medicentres founders could not understand. In England, where they had lived and trained ......"

The UK has socialized medicine, quite different from what some misguided consumers mistake Canada's univeral health care for. There, virtually everyone is in the employ of the National Health Service. Charts of patients leaving the care of a physician not requested by a new physician within four months are usually sent to a NHS warehouse, taking sometimes months or longer for a patient's new provider to retrieve. I've had one or two NHS transplants. Until they get to know our system, they sometimes assume that the patient's prior physician is automatically forwarding the patient's chart. I unfortunately made the erroneous assumption that contained within the paperwork I had to sign that my chart was being ordered. You can imagine the rest.

NHS practitioners often own the local apothecary and if not, often see compensation for patients they refer, and do more than pressure, they sometimes expect their patients to fill their prescriptions at the recommended apothecary. In the UK, virtually any drug approved for prescribing is also approved for payment coverge, making them liberal prescribers. Given sliding scale prescription support by the provinces, some may continue that practice here.

Don't ask me about NHS surgeons. That's another story. If you need to see one, get a second opinion from a Canadian trained surgeon.
If your physician's record at the local College of Physicians and Surgeons indicates that s/he has an M.B. rather than an M.D., ask how long they've been practicing in the province.