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Ontario is taking steps to reduce the administrative load on family doctors. Employees seeking to utilize their three days of provincially mandated annual sick leave will no longer require a doctor s note.
With an estimated 2.3 million Ontario residents lacking a family doctor, a faculty member in Queen’s University’s School of Medicine says that something has to change to encourage students to consider comprehensive family medicine as a career, including the way that young doctors are being trained.