According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, nearly 30 per cent of Canada's roughly 9,500 family doctors are practicing outside of family medicine.
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, a clinic director warns.
Peterborough Family Health Team has increased the number of available appointments at its sites on King Street in Peterborough and on Strickland Street in Lakefield.
As the Ontario Medical Association continues to sound the alarm over a family doctor shortage, one doctor said a move toward American-style health care is 'happening already.'