'I'm a problem solver': Meet the mayor whose plan to attract family doctors is turning heads across Canada
A clinic in a small city outside Victoria is making family doctors municipal employees. By offering them pensions, benefits and administrative support, they are giving doctors a lifestyle many say they want.
When the mayor of Colwood B.C., went for an appointment with his family doctor in 2022, he was in for a rude surprise. The doctor was moving away.
"I was absolutely stunned," Doug Kobayashi said.
Kobayashi, who's been mayor of the city near Victoria ...