Ontario's family medicine residency positions all filled for the coming year, while improvements in primary care (billing and administration) are urged to help solve the family doctor crisis. Dr. Nadia Alam (she/her) Fahad Razak M Fight Back w/ Libby #FamilyDoctors Ontario Ministry of Health…

Canadian health care is the envy of no one, and our fierce loyalty to the mirage of a functioning system is literally killing people.

We can’t even get the basics right, and we’re adding new programs on top. This is insane.
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As a teacher of medical learners, I asked: why is it hard to show the joy of #familymedicine ?

Because for the first time in 15 years, that joy has been overshadowed by business costs, admin & EMR burden, lack of work-life balance, and 24/7 work demands. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

“If you’re going, I’m going.” Just like that, it was settled: the business was going to fold.

20 years as a family doc ends due to rising costs, inadequate pay & high admin burden.

“I felt like I was failing not only as a physician but as a mother.”
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Brilliant.

“Are you accepting new patients?

The day people stop asking this question is the day we have fixed the primary care crisis.”

We know what a primary care strategy could and should look like — just look to BC, Manitoba and others. #ONpoli justanoldcountrydoctor.com/2024/04/13/are…

A Quebec man is provided MAID (medically assisted death) after bedsores develop - while waiting days on a stretcher in ER.
Powerful important and tragic story. cbc.ca/news/canada/mo… Radio-Canada Info Rachel Watts

#ONpoli please tell me you’re kidding.

Thnx The Globe and Mail for publishing this theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… The path to better health care doesn’t require further recommendations re how it should be fixed. It requires political leadership. Governing is not theoretical. The job of politicians is to implement actual solutions

Primary care should be a legislated right.

That >6.5 million people in Canada go without it is antithetical to the values people hold dear and the promise of Medicare

Thanks Jane Philpott for this terrific op-ed. I can’t wait to read your book!

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Some people living with disabilities are worried about the stress of facing unexpected questions about whether they have considered #MAID . Some are drawing up cards, like the one below. Others suggest ID bracelets that say 'No MAID'.
'So many of us are worried about this,'…

⁦Dr. Sohail Gandhi, MD⁩ shared this with me.

At a time of challenges, it’s wonderful to remember what I’m fighting for: medical students like these.

#ONhealth #ONpoli cbc.ca/radio/whitecoa…

Payment matters. It’s not why I got into #medicine . But it is how I keep my office open to practice #familymedicine .

There are models around the world AND in other provinces that restore our #JoyinWork by removing the business stress.

#ONpoli your turn. macleans.ca/society/health…