A reason why people with routine, chronic illness go to the ED instead: “You’re sick, you’re hurt, you can’t get in to see your family doctor, you don’t have a family doctor – they come in . . . People being people, and water being water, they follow the path of least resistance.”
Which goes to show that improving primary care access will be an effective way to relieve emergency room overcrowding.
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lack of primary care – another nail in the coffin of this dying health care system…job security for those of us who work in the ER…
Primary care has been going downhill in Canada for a while now. It’s really quite distressing to have a first hand seat at the upcoming troubles.
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