OPINION: This is why you don't have a family doctor
This is why you don’t have a family doctor
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Apr 10, 20232 min read
'Intense' competition pushes eastern Ontario communities to lure family doctors with cash
Addressing access to health care should be provincial responsibility, researchers say As mayor of Quinte West, Jim Harrison says he's...
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Apr 6, 20232 min read
Randall Denley: Lack of a family doctor is the real two-tier health care system
Ontario is a long way from providing everyone with the most fundamental connection to care Imagine every Ontario adult having a family...
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Apr 6, 20232 min read
Family doctor shortage skyrockets during COVID-19 pandemic
The number of people in Ontario looking for family doctors has skyrocketed during the pandemic to 415,000 and new data shows those with...
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Apr 5, 20232 min read
Toronto residents increasingly don’t have a family doctor. Here’s why
The number of people in Toronto who do not have a family doctor jumped significantly during the first two years of the pandemic, with at...
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Apr 3, 20232 min read
Ontario regulator eases restrictions for some foreign-trained doctors to work in Canada
Ontario’s physician regulator is making it easier for doctors who were trained in the U.S., Ireland, Australia and Britain to practise...
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Mar 31, 20232 min read
Family doctor shortage creates stress for patients, communities — and physicians
Even offering generous housing and cash incentives, communities struggle to recruit doctors For the first time in his 81 years, Hugh...
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Mar 21, 20232 min read
A day in the life of a family doctor
CBC's Omar Dabaghi-Pacheco follows Dr. Alykhan Abdulla for a day It's just after six o'clock on a frigid Ottawa morning. The sun won't...
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Mar 1, 20232 min read
Canada’s health care deal: A look at the numbers and the provinces on board so far
The federal government is injecting tens of billions of dollars into Canada’s struggling health care systems, but before they can acquire...
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Mar 1, 20231 min read
How Ontario's new health-care deal could change the way your family doctor works
$8.4B agreement with federal government would boost number of patients covered by family health teams More family doctors in Ontario...
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Mar 1, 20231 min read
How Ontario's new health-care deal could change the way your family doctor works
$8.4B agreement with federal government would boost number of patients covered by family health teams More family doctors in Ontario...
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Feb 21, 20232 min read
You can buy faster access to health care in Ontario for $30/month. Here's why it's legal
‘This is a form of 2-tier health care,’ says medicare advocate, while acknowledging it’s legal Some doctors in Ontario are offering their...
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Feb 13, 20231 min read
Uncovering the real numbers behind who in Ontario lacks access to a family doctor
The number of Ontarians without a family doctor rose significantly during the first two years of the pandemic, according to the most...
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Feb 11, 20232 min read
Federal-Provincial Health Care Deal Fails Canadians
This blog has been updated to reflect that the fact that the offer from the federal government has been accepted by the provinces. Lots...
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Feb 9, 20231 min read
Ontarians dropped by family doctors say they should've at least been notified
Patients left 'with nowhere to turn' amid long-running shortage of family physicians When Tarek Emara called his family doctor north of...
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Feb 8, 20233 min read
Thousands of patients. No help. Meet the lone family doctor of Verona, Ontario.
I’m the only family doctor in a 2,000-person Ontario town. It’s impossible to be the doctor I want to be. I got into family medicine in a...
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Feb 6, 20232 min read
Randall Denley: Lack of a family doctor is the real two-tier health care system
Ontario is a long way from providing everyone with the most fundamental connection to care Imagine every Ontario adult having a family...
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Feb 4, 20232 min read
Ontario’s Heading For Another Family Doctor Shortage
This is the follow up blog to my last one, originally published in the Huffington Post on June 13, 2017. Reprinted here so that I can...
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Feb 3, 20231 min read
More than 2 million Ontarians now without a family doctor: report
Approximately 1,700 family doctors needed to make up shortfall The number of Ontarians without a family doctor has surpassed two million,...
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Dec 28, 20221 min read
Skip the doctor, see a pharmacist: 13 conditions you can have treated at an Ontario pharmacy in 2023
Starting Jan. 1, pharmacies can prescribe medication for these conditions at no cost to patients Ontario pharmacies will officially be...
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