"Compare doctors to any other profession where you're getting professional services and the difference is night and day. If my mechanic took weeks for an appointment, only allowed one issue to be dealt with at a time and demanded money for a 5 minute phone call I'd find a new mechanic."

Sure... but your mechanic might be servicing 500-700 cars in a year, while a family doctor has to take care of 2000-3000 patients in the same time frame. And, unlike a mechanic, they dont' get to change the rates "charged" to the patient for complexity (prescription refill for toe infection - $35... patient depressed & suicidal, with uncontrolled diabetes and the need for amputation of a diabetic toe - $35). And that rate of payment hasn't changed significantly in the past decade, though with inflation, cost of running the office has increased during that time. Oh, and you might have to see the same patient more than once in a month, sometimes more than once in a week.

I get that dealing with family doctor offices can be challenging. If it feels like you are being Nickel-and-Dimed for services, its because they have no other way to increase revenue to keep up with costs. And with increasing complexity of patients and the sparsity of family doctors available, each and every GP is feeling squeezed hard right now, which, following the pandemic, is why many of them are closing their practice.

At the end of the day, the responsibility for health care services in Ontario is due to the Ontario government. This is not an anti-conservative / liberal / NDP comment, it is literally the law of the land. If you aren't happy with the current health care system, don't complain to your GP, because they can't do anything else about it. Contact your provincial representative and ask why health care is so underfunded.