The province's health minister says he's confident government, Health P.E.I. and the society that represents family doctors on the Island can reach a compromise in a dispute over physician workloads. 

Last week, the Medical Society of Prince Edward Island announced that it's planning legal action against Health P.E.I. over an update to targets for family physicians.

The society said the new targets for how many patients each doctor needs to accept are not what it agreed to when it signed a new ph…