Walk-in Clinic

Dr. Alykhan Abdulla has examined Ontario’s proposed physician services agreement around FP issues and virtual care.

A new poll found 59% of Canadians said having an ongoing relationship with a family doctor or team was more important than having care that was more convenient.

NPs and PAs are already expanding into primary care. This CFPC decision is wrong headed, argues Dr. Teela Johnson.

Intuitively, we doctors think it’s more efficient for us to control the dialogue of the encounter, rather than the patient. We’re wrong.

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The Nova Scotia Health authority is examining the idea of walk-in clinics attached to pharmacies with a nurse practitioner and pharmacists teaming up to give patients another option when seeking primary care.

Three pharmacies in Oshawa, Whitby and Ajax were robbed within minutes on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

While we agree that building and graduating competent, world-class leading FPs is essential to the success of our healthcare system, the OTR fails to see the forest for the trees. They have chosen a blunt instrument that will fell the trees and harvest the wood for the coffin of General Practice training in Canada.