I don’t want to belittle the work a GP does but this article is not an accurate representation of how it works (at least in Alberta) I am a medical receptionist in calgary. Docs don’t print their own paperwork. They also don’t deal with emails about the pandemic, equipment or personnel problems, that is the admin team, more than likely a clinic manager. Prescription requests are not a hard or time consuming process. It literally takes looking at the patient and prescription and seeing if they prescription should be approved or should the patient come in first. In my experience this is rarely done fully and they just check to ensure the medication isn’t an opioid and they sign off on it and then they can bill $20 just for signing a piece of paper. Also only in my experience but the GPs I worked with didn’t review bloodwork daily unless it was flagged as urgent and they most definitely wouldn’t call patients with those results. Even urgent results (yes during covid) would have to be reviewed in the clinic. I have only worked in 1 family practice and these sorts of things were why I left that clinic and got out of that type of medicine but these were 9 doctors all doing the same things so I find it hard to believe that it would be very different else where especially considering they all started at the clinic at different times. That being said my family doctor is great and goes above and beyond so there are good ones out there but 1 article doesn’t explain the whole story.

Tldr: not all GPs are made equal