text: Hi  just to add my N of one.  I am a family doc in Ontario.  I suture, remove lumps and bumps, have xray on site and will cast simple fractures.  As do the 11 other docs who work in my family health team.  We also have weekend clinic hours and are open till 8pm 4 days per week  ( we stopped fridays bc the patients did not show up after booking, better things to do I hope) .  Several of our docs deliver babies and some of us do palliative care and *gasp* do house calls.  Which btw I get paid less for than I pay a plumber.   Please don't paint us with the same brush.  Every practice is unique but at this time we are all struggling to maintain a business, pay our staff and stay afloat.  The stress is high we are now in the position we get blamed for not preventing disease, for wastung all the health care money and not providing a guarantee like a naturopath does  ( i had a patient tell me this yesterday) but we keep chugging along.  Because we are needed.