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2014-09-27
In the 1970s and 1980s, doctor to the Q community in Halifax.
Why did you originally move to Canada?
I graduated from medical school in Cincinnati in 1974. Big city teaching hospitals associated with medical school often cater to the indigent, especially in the USA, where often the care you get is dependent on how much you can pay or if you have private insurance. Having been brought in a politically left-leaning family hugely sensitive to equality, I was appalled I was being trained in a system where that system was not only racist, elitist but also amoral. Upon learning more of the Canadian system that provided equal access to equal care for everyone, the pretty money, little cars and electric kettles (never heard of ‘em) was a no brainer. But... that choice could be a bit more blurry today.1
I retired from practice around 2000, but continued to work with Family Focus and the Med Society with doctors in trouble, till 2010.2
FrankMagazine wrote that Dr. Bob Fredrickson's patients see him more as a friend than as a physician. He'll take that as a compliment The scathingly satirical Frank, a publication not known for being kind to the people it writes about, recently described Halifax family physician Dr. Bob Fredrickson as "the boy wonder of Queen Street who ministers to a large and loyal flock of iconoclastic sickos who universally regard him as a friend rather than a physician." Dr. Fredrickson laughs heartily at the magazine's unusual praise, but admits the comments did concern him. "In a way I felt pretty good about what they said, although I wondered how my patients would react. But I recognize that I do attract a different type of clientele... I operate on a walk-in basis and that's not for everyone. My concept of health goes beyond finding the right combination of pills to keep a b.p. below 140/90 ..."
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