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The Health Care Crisis II: Family Doctors

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How Much More Is the Problem Exacerbated in Rural Communities?

There really isn't a lot of health infrastructure built within those locations. And so when you lose access to a family physician in Grand Prairie where I work, you may not be able to actually get any sort of diagnostic pathway started. We know that the crisis is advanced quite a bit. You know, if you're in downtown Toronto and you can't get into a walk in clinic or you wait so long within that walk in clinic that you just give up and go home until the problem gets worse. That's a late sign that this is now getting to a critical point we've never been before.

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