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We feel it is no longer safe to practice comprehensive family medicine in Ontario. It is unsafe economically. More importantly, it is unsafe for your health and well-being.

A recent opinion piece that discourages family medicine doctors from starting a practice in Ontario at this time has Maria DiDanieli deeply troubled.

The agreement, announced in Iqaluit, is to increase the number of Inuit working in healthcare.

Despite initial plans for a leisurely but purposeful retirement, Dr. Bert Wing King found the reality boring and felt it produces a stress of its own.

The Ontario College of Family Physicians forecasts that number could reach nearly one million by 2026.

'We need to move expeditiously' to lock down a comprehensive care funding model, said Alberta Medical Association president Dr. Paul Parks. 'The urgency is still very real.'

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Ambient scribes could alleviate the administrative burden on family doctors some say.