A good friend, female 64, with back injury from work many years ago, heart issues and high blood pressure and colitis is having great difficulty finding a doctor in Porters Lake/ Dartmouth/Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. Dan Nicholson, Minesville, N.S. accepted her as a patient after she disclosed all her medical issues. On the next appointment she delivered her list of prescriptions since October 2013. He immediately dismissed her and denied her any medical services because in the past her Dr. Brown (since retired) prescribed narcotics to help her manage severe pain and lack of sleep. Dr. Nicholson did not elaborate and she left crying and feeling unwanted and unworthy. Dr. Isis Dawood who was accepting new patients also refused to accept this patient because she was a patient of a former colleague at Lacewood Medical Clinic that closed down and the doctors all moved to Ontario, including her doctor and Dr. Dawood. When her doctor returned to Nova Scotia he set up in Bedford but did not contact her. Before he left he told her he was moving and could not longer be her doctor. IN the Halifax Metro Newspaper, April 2, 2015, Tony MacIntryre tells his story of being declined by 10 physicians and some declined because he uses narcotics to control his severe pain. My two questions are: If a patient was prescribed narcotics to ease and manage their pain in the past, are there other more effective prescriptions available today that are not narcotics for her conditions? If so, what didn t or wouldn t Dr. Dan Nicholson not explain that alternative and option and try her on those? Second, Capital Health listing of physicians accepting patients is not kept current and is not helpful to find a family physician that specializes or interested in patients with her medical issues. Can you refer us to a human being who is knowledgeable and has access to a data base of family physicians who are accepting patients and can assist a patient with her medical issues? She is so discouraged she just wants to give up.