We want your clinical view.
The project is under review. Before building a commercial operation, we want feedback from Québec healthcare professionals.
The patient’s Québec physician remains independent and is under no obligation to endorse or participate in treatment abroad.
Possible role, only if they agree
- Provide existing documentation, if the patient asks
- Clarify known diagnoses
- Inform the patient about medical considerations
- Review documentation after return, if they wish
- Identify continuity risks
What we are not asking
- We are not asking physicians to become salespeople.
- We are not asking them to refer patients for compensation.
- We are not asking them to endorse treatment abroad.
Continuity of care
- 01
Before Brazil: Québec records
- 02
In Brazil: assessment and, if appropriate, a procedure by the institution
- 03
Before discharge: a structured package
- 04
Return to Québec: the patient and their professionals, with no automatic obligation
The discharge package would aim to include
- Diagnosis
- Procedure performed
- Operative report
- Medications
- Imaging
- Laboratory results
- Implanted device information
- Pathology, when relevant
- Restrictions
- Warning signs
- Recommended follow-up
- Contacts for the treating physician abroad
Questions we are actively trying to answer
- 1.Which wait-list problems cause the most suffering for your patients?
- 2.How often do patients ask about private care?
- 3.Do patients ever ask about treatment outside Canada?
- 4.Which procedures are realistic for international treatment?
- 5.Which procedures should never be part of this model?
- 6.What information would you need when the patient returns?
- 7.Who should be responsible for post-operative complications?
- 8.How could communication between the Brazilian specialist and the Québec physician improve?
- 9.What would make this project clinically credible?
- 10.What would make you immediately distrust it?