For some important context I live in Ontario Canada which I do understand that family doctors can be not easy to find. I am female, 29, 240lbs, 5’4-5” ish

I thought it would ask from a medical professional perspective even more so a family doctor POV, if I am able to successfully find a new doctor is it valid to drop my current doctor due to honestly mostly lost of confidence in their care over me as my family doctor?

I have moved away ish or I don’t live as close as when I first started to see her but even throughout our 6 ish year doctor patient relationship, there has been struggles that have honestly been the way she has made me feel in some ways which she did work through at the time being and things were fine. But I have noticed especially in the last year roughly, when it comes to her office (she does work in what now very much seems like a very busy doctors office) and sometimes even her responses to me, my care has not been as important as I feel like it should be. I understand and respect that I am not her only patient but typically speaking I am supposed to see her once a month as just a check in and for her to monitor other things. Because of various reasons, I haven’t seen her since like July and there has been no reaching out from her or her office staff about my lack of seeing her in person when I feel like there probably should have been given the type of patient-doctor relationship we have. I have felt like I just very much slipped through the cracks and quite frankly I have just lost confidence her ability to oversee my complex care needs which she does know I have complex care. I feel like I have just ran out of chances especially when on Friday Nov 8,2024 I was supposed to have a phone call appointment as I had to call the office to arrange that(typically I have to book online which is okay ish and a learning adjust to say the least). But it was supposed to be in person as it somehow got registered wrong in the system. I don’t know how honestly but it did. In many ways, she has also just became less and less accessible to someone who deals with chronic health problems and illnesses which she once again knows very well. She doesn’t seem to really be interested in doing other forms (like through the phone) of care even when there are definitely some that could be.

So essentially is it a valid reason to drop a doctor because of lack of confidence in them being able to care for me as the main issue? That is obviously assuming I can find a new one which I have been hard at work on already.