Too many smokers, food insecurity, the need for home visits and dealing with racism from patients all play into how Dr. Kerubo Workman provides care in a region with too few FPs.
Reporting from the Toronto Star said senior Liberals are trying to recruit Dr. Danielle Martin, chair of the family medicine program at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine, to run.
In the early aughts, Dr. Justyna Bartoszko took a summer job recruiting participants for a study at the Hospital for Sick Children’s Research Institute. ‘It was a silly summer job,’ she says, ‘But it was an experience gaining project.’
‘You don't have to sit on 10 committees to justify your existence,’ stressed the Toronto physician, speaking on how residency is a crucial time for physicians learning to set boundaries, maintain a sense of control over their lives and deciding which areas of care you want your life to be about.