LONDON, ONT. | How do patients react when they lose their family physician? The answer may surprise you, according to a small study completed at Western University’s school of family medicine.
Another federal budget cycle has passed without remedy for the biggest unresolved problem in our healthcare system. From 1980 to 2010, spending on pharmaceuticals used outside of hospitals in Canada grew more than 15-fold, from just under $2 billion to just over $30 billion. Yes, billion.