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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...

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,...

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...

Dec 18, 20222 min read

Telus Health adds two major clients amid bet that employee well-being will be lasting trend

Telus's health division has partnered with Desjardins and Walmart Canada In December, the digital health-tech provider announced a...

Oct 17, 20221 min read

Why Ontario is reducing doctors’ payments for one-off virtual appointments.

And what it could mean for your health care The Ontario Medical Association calls the rise of virtual medicine during the pandemic a...

Sep 25, 20224 min read

Pandemic spurred exodus of Ontario family doctors, study indicates

TORONTO - Ontario family doctors left the profession at the start of the pandemic at double the rate of the years before COVID-19 hit,...