I recently saw a pleasant, 37-year-old fair-skinned male, who was (it seemed) very healthy, with no known allergies, and only using a topical product—brought from Brazil—on his rash.
Family physicians already operate in an environment of nonstop decision-making. Adding another layer of continuous operational tracking changes the psychology of practice itself.
Until recently, overlooked has been the loss of portable health benefits in the rest of Canada. These were defined as a major principle of medicare by Tommy Douglas in 1966, and were enshrined in the Canada Health Act of 1984.