General Practice/Family Medicine

By limiting support to select practice models, the province risks sidelining 82% of physicians who already attach the vast majority of patients.

When Tylenol, pregnancy and autism became political talking points, I turned inward—into memory, imagination and even dreams.

The healthy, fair-skinned, unhappy boy asked me to look at a rash on his arm. The rash had begun as a small ‘pimple’ over two weeks previously, and was enlarging.

A modern medical fable, with apologies to Ashkenazi folklore and Julia Donaldson.

We must strengthen the primary care foundation while building an integrated health system—and that requires provinces and territories to finally work together

The province says this funding cycle will create 75 primary care teams to serve 500,000 Ontarians.

‘When I was working full-time family practice, I didn't really have time for my own family.’

The agreement between the province's physicians and its government also, ‘includes additional targeted investments that will address systemic healthcare delivery issues,’ according to a release from the Ontario Medical Association.