Mark Roel, the famous heart surgeon in Ottawa, was planning to move to the United States last year, with the University of California, San Francisco “with great happiness to announce” that he would lead the heart department in the surgery department.
But Donald Trump’s threats to Canada were so much that Roel now decided to stay in Canada.
“Canada is now coercive,” he told CBC. “I felt my role and my duty at this stage is my service directly from the inside.”
Roel is not the only medical professional who is now refraining from working in the United States.
This means that the health care system in Canada can benefit from the political turmoil launched by the American President, as American doctors are looking to move to the north and give up the Canadians from the opportunities of southern border.
“I don’t want to do politics.”
For more than a decade, Roel was the head of cardiac surgery at the University of Ottawa University, where he developed leading techniques in the world in the lesser -tested warm surgery.
Royle says he considers his skills a producer from Canada, and it is a willingness to participate in the world when he accepted this position in UCSF last year.
“In the west of the United States, no one does this more advanced, and the minimum multi -conversion surgery,” he said.
Roel has not publicly spoken about his decision to stay in Canada, partly to avoid engaging in politics.
“I do not want to practice politics, I am a surgeon, I am not a politician and respect the choice of every country to choose their fate,” he said.
But Trump’s imposition of definitions and threats to include the country, which was historically the closest ally, made geopolitics an unavoidable issue.
“I had to change my decision unfortunately,” Royel said. “I say unfortunately because there are patients in California, I can tell you, who we look forward to performing this type of surgery.”
Looking at the broader context, Rail says that staying is the best decision.
“I am very happy to be here and to serve, and also, my Canadian colleagues,” he said.
Meanwhile, in the United States, many doctors consider whether they can continue to perform their jobs under the Trump administration again.
CBC spoke with two American doctors who seek to move to Canada and the third that recently moved to BC
The three declined to speak in the registry, noting the fear of revenge for the talk about the Trump administration. But they shared concerns about the Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Last week, the United States reported that Kennedy had rented David Gere, a skeptical vaccine, to study the links between immunization and autism.
Gayer, who was oversight in 2012 to practice medicine without a license in Maryland, has already published allegations about allegations that increase the risk of autism, which critics say the result before any subsequent investigation led.
On Thursday, Kennedy also announced plans to reduce 10,000 jobs as part of the restructuring of federal public health agencies.
Open “flood opening”
Fears regarding the political climate in the United States have opened “taxes” of investigations into moving to Canada, according to Michel Flynn employee.
“The amount of benefit has doubled more than twice as much as the past few months,” she told CBC.
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Nevertheless, I have recently struggled to obtain any Canadian interested in moving south.
“I started a position for [obstetrician-gynecologist] She said: “In the United States before President Trump was elected, we had since we had completely eliminating this idea. No one goes to the United States.”
To deal with the flow of inquiries from American doctors who want to come to Canada, Flynn said that she is now conducting five days per week, up from three days a week.
She said: “We get 60 doctors coming to our website per month.”
Canada is now in a better position to welcome doctors trained in us from the past, as most provinces have removed barriers that prevent licensing in recent years.
Ontario is in particular a good position to receive American doctors, according to the Regional Ministry of Health.
“There is no doubt that the United States is facing economic uncertainty at the hands of President Trump’s tariff,” the Ministry of Health said in an email.
“We have taken steps to destroy barriers in front of workers in the world’s health care workers … Work with the College of Doctors and Surgeons in Ontario (CPSO) to remove unnecessary red tape to allow trained doctors and their credit in the United States to practice Ontario immediately.”
After submitting this new license path, CPSO 351 American doctors scored between 2023 and the end of 2024, a spokesman said.
To date, CPSO has received registration requests from 240 educated doctors from the United States. The spokesman said that most of them are currently practicing in the United States.
Looking at Trump’s turbulent turbulence, Royel believes that Canada is a “better” country to face an uncertain future.
“I am a great believer in the Canadian health care system,” he said. “It needs some reforms, but I believe that the basic principles we have of stocks, the ability to transport and reach everyone is really task.”