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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...

Feb 8, 20232 min read

Opinion: Canada needs more family doctors

Broad consensus says that Canada’s health-care system is in crisis and major reform is needed, and that part of that reform is to ensure...

Feb 8, 20232 min read

‘Hitting a wall’: Victoria doctor fed up after B.C. fails to pay her for an entire month

Dr. Emanuela Tura says B.C. didn’t pay her for January, MSP says it’s a ‘glitch’ A Victoria-based family doctor says the B.C. government...

Feb 7, 20232 min read

LETTER: Retired Cape Breton doctor worries about future of family physicians

Province also announces physician mental health supports in latest effort to address doctor shortage As a retired family doctor who...

Feb 6, 20232 min read

Canadian family doctors facing 'red tape' coming to B.C.

Provincial licensing and regulatory procedures are dissuading family doctors from coming to B.C., according to a family doctor who...

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...