It would likely take an entire day for someone to have treatment options explained to them, never mind test for remission or reoccurrence, deal with side-effects, examine alternative therapy, explain outcomes to a parent or provide palliative care options to someone our current technology can’t help.
“You do the math on it – the answer is 23,000 patients a year that get diagnosed with cancer. We have 120 oncologists, that’s about 191 patients for each oncologist, so you would think that they should be able to treat 191 patients, that’s less than one patient a day”
– Danielle Smith, Your Province. Your Premier. 6/01/2024 @23:15
Note also that the number of “120 oncologists” apparently came from perusing the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta Physician Directory. Indeed, if you select “Medical Oncology” for “Practice Discipline”, then currently you are presented with 111 results. Many of those physicians are retired, have moved, etc, and are not “Active”. Search again while selecting the “Display Active Only” option, and you’ll see only 72 doctors (with at least one of them living in the United States somehow).
With Danielle-Smith-math, that’s one-and-a-quarter patients a day. More sensible thinking would indicate an possibly untenable situation.
Only 2 years ago, Danielle Smith voiced her belief that cancer prior to stage 4 can be prevented by the patients themselves. It was explained to her by a number of people at the time that this belief was stupid.