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Adding Chesley and Durham physicians to the already established Brockton and Area Family Health Team would not only allow for the hiring of more allied health care professionals in the area, it would also make history.
Chesley and Durham doctors were invited earlier this year to be part of the Brockton Family Health Team. A business [...]

News that doctors from other countries will have an easier time entering practice in Ontario may result in more physicians for the Hastings-Prince Edward area — and it could eventually help thousands without a family doctor finally get one.
“I really wish they had done it five years ago,” Dr. Peter Gray, a family physician at [...]

Nancy Sampson peered nervously into the camera and described the terror of having a 15-year-old addicted to street drugs.%26quot;I spent a year while waiting to find treatment for my daughter, waiting for a call that she was dead in a dumpster,%26quot; she told a news conference yesterday.Dona Eull-Schultz clutched a framed baby picture of her [...]

Megan’s parents were puttering at home on a frigid February evening when they got the call. They were told to come immediately and pick up their 16-year-old. She had been caught stealing cash from the store where she worked part-time. Police were involved. It had been clear Megan was lurching out of control. Once [...]

“The health system is in disarray owing to the lack of an institutional framework, intermittent electricity, unsafe water, and frequent violations of medical neutrality. The ministry of health and local health authorities are mostly unable to meet these huge challenges, while the activities of UN agencies and non-governmental organisations are severely limited.”The report, by the [...]