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It wasn't always lonely out here. I have been the only permanent doctor in my little country clinic north of Kingston for eight years now, and I previously felt tremendous [...]

I GOT INTO FAMILY MEDICINE in a roundabout way. In my 20s, I did my graduate studies in philosophy in the United States. After that, I spent nine years working [...]

A lot of new doctors in Canada are realizing that the GP path often comes with huge patient rosters, so they decide to specialize in something else. Canada's GPs are drinking from a fire hydrant right now, but we still have good days - when patients come to our clinic with an issue, when I can see them immediately and I get to say, "Yes! It's been seven years, and I'm still the only family doctor in Verona, though, now that I know my patients (and their charts) so well, I've whittled down my weekly commitment to roughly 65 hours. [Extracted from the article]