Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Kelly Grant
Publication Date: February 14, 2025 - 06:00
How is health care functioning in Ontario now? What the data say about wait times, doctor shortages and emergency rooms
February 14, 2025
When family physician Kamila Premji delivered an academic talk recently on primary care in Ontario, she started her slide deck with an ominous, but apt, photo of a tornado gathering speed in the distance.Her presentation contained new analyses from INSPIRE-PHC, the research group behind the estimate that 2.5 million Ontarians don’t have a family doctor, a figure cited frequently by Liberal, NDP and Green candidates gunning to defeat Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in the Feb. 27 provincial election.
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Juls Budau takes her prescription hydromorphone three times per day: a half tablet shortly after waking up, while making her morning coffee; another in the afternoon, while wrapping up work; and a third in the evening as she readies for bed.The Victoria resident says that this regimen has played an important role in helping her stop using the street drugs that she had once been dependent on. Picking up her prescription once a week means she is able to focus on her work as a research assistant, and on finishing her master’s degree in social work.
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