Similar in Canada: 1) Call doctor or drop by an evening clinic to see the on call doctor (who could be your doctor) 2) Doctor diagnoses you, write prescriptio

Similar in Canada: 1) Call doctor or drop by an evening clinic to see the on call doctor (who could be your doctor) 2) Doctor diagnoses you, write prescription 3) The pharmacy is usually in the same building All that is free except the prescription that's what gets you here if you don't have private insurance but universal pharmacare is supposedly something the government is considering. And specialists are hard to contact since you have to be referred to them by your family doctor if you have a family doctor. My last doctor who passed away had 7,000 patients he cared for he'd have to see three or four people every hour every day.