The start of September saw Ontario’s roughly 1,700 optometrists withdraw services covered by the province’s health plan to protest the government’s refusal to increase insurance payments to at least cover the cost of providing services.
The kids-focused virtual care platform co-founded by Medisys Health Group founder Dr. Sheldon Elman is now available to patients, pediatricians and pediatric specialists in Ontario and Quebec, with plans to expand to the rest of the country.
Lives are at stake and action is needed now, said Paul-Emile Cloutier, president and chief executive officer of HealthCareCAN, a group representing organizations such as research hospitals and health authorities.
Dr. Ilan Shahin collected the job postings for family doctors in Toronto for a week recently and then he codified them. He found some interesting things about where job growth for doctors is happening.