As we witness the advancement of AI, the question arises as to whether empathetic communication can only be mastered by the human clinician – and whom the patient of the future would choose.
Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto surveyed more than 9,000 people online and had in-person discussions with dozens more across Canada to talk about their experiences with primary care and how to fix it.
Governments in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have made family medicine a priority—and backed their words with targeted funding. Ontario must as well.
A retired FP looks at the disparity between the fees paid to him decades ago and what the inflation-adjusted amounts should be—and what Ontario actually pays now.
The qualitative study, which looked at the data practices of commercial virtual care providers, found some companies used data analytics instead of physicians' recommendations to develop care pathways.
