Dr. Jonathan Reggler

Jonathan Reggler trained in the United Kingdom, graduating from the University of Cambridge in 1984. After a six-year spell in the military he practiced as a GP near London for 11 years. He immigrated to the Comox Valley in 2003, leaving the UK because the British National Health Service was moving towards “tick box” medicine and away from personal care provided by family physicians to their own, identifiable patients.
 
Since then he has enjoyed looking after his practice of mainly elderly patients and has managed until now to avoid any involvement in committees or organizations other than the ethics committee at St Joseph’s Hospital.
 
In 2016 he developed, with Dr Tanja Daws, a local service for medical assistance in dying (MAiD), in the hope that in due course, through education and support, most family physicians will offer this service to those of their eligible patients who wish it.
 
Jonathan joined the board in part to ensure that the focus of the BC model of family practice will continue to be on continuity of care (physicians looking after their own patients) and that focus will not be overshadowed by the promotion of continuous care (24-hour availability). “I do not want to see BC family practice go the way of its counterpart in the UK, where public dissatisfaction with the service is at an all-time high”.

In his spare time he daubs watercolours. He enjoys kayaking when he can. He has paddled around Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii, though not at the same time.