A medical clinic looking to take on thousands of new patients is working to improve its rostering process after people camped out overnight and hundreds lined up, desperate to find a primary care physician. But without systemic changes, officials at the Kingston, Ont., clinic say there will likely be more lineups. “Rostering just means a … Read more
Hundreds of people lined up in the cold and rain outside a Kingston health clinic for hours Wednesday morning, desperate to find a doctor. It marked the third day in a row a line stretched for blocks outside CDK Family Medicine and Walk-In Clinic on Sutherland Drive after the clinic announced it would be accepting … Read more
Roughly 10,000 patients in rural Ontario could lose their doctor due to a provincial funding decision that splits a small town into haves and have-nots, according to the local clinic’s medical director. “To have half of our patient population go without those extra supports that we all desperately need right now is a major blow,” Dr. … Read more
With a fatal cancer diagnosis, time is not something Elaine Foley, 67, has to spare. With a medical system plagued with long wait times, the Wasaga Beach, Ont., woman is running out of what little time she has left. Elaine is battling Stage 4 cancer that spread from her lungs to her brain, with doctors … Read more
Dr. David Barber, chair of the Ontario Medical Association’s general and family practice section, says a move toward private health care in Ontario is “happening already” and that it’s “going to get worse.” During a news conference Thursday discussing a shortage of family doctors in Ontario, Barber said one of his own patients went to … Read more
