Canada is grappling with a severe shortage of family doctors — but Canadian-born family physicians working abroad are fighting to obtain the paperwork they need to practise here.
Dr. Stephanie DeMarchi, a general practitioner born in Hamilton, Ont. who has worked in Australia for the past ten years, is one of those doctors.
She trained at the University of Queensland and spent her residency and years as a GP working in rural Australia. She now wants to come home to Canada to take over from her mother, a family doctor in Hamilton who is retiring soon.
But a tangle of red tape has made the process an arduous one. She’s been in a battle with Canada’s health-care bureaucracy for nearly
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