CONSEQUENCES FOR UNATTACHED PATIENTS 1 Title: “What do you mean I can't have a doctor? This is Canada!” – A Qualitative Study of the Myriad Consequences for Unattached Patients Awaiting Primary Care Attachment Authors: Emily Gard Marshall a , Sara Wuite b , Beverley Lawson a , Melissa K. Andrew c , Lynn Edwards d , Adrian MacKenzie e , Ana Correa Woodrow f , Sarah Peddle f Affiliations: a Department of Family Medicine, Primary Care Research Unit, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada b Public Health, Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Canada c Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada d Primary Health Care & Chronic Disease Management, Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Canada e Research and Innovation, Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Canada f Patient Partner, Halifax, Canada Corresponding Author: Dr. E.G. Marshall Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Primary Care Research Unit Dalhousie University 1465 Brenton St., Suite 402 Halifax, NS B3J 3T4 Canada Emily.Marshall@dal.ca All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted July 28, 2021. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.07.21260143 doi: medRxiv preprint NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice.