In this article featured on the front page of the Toronto Star, Dr. Archna Gupta spoke about a recent study published in CMAJ that found that 13 per cent of Ontarians attached to a family doctor live more than 30 kilometres away from their physician. The study also found that these patients were more likely to use the emergency department for non-urgent reasons and to have fewer family doctor visits, and were less likely to have preventive screening for cancer.
“When we talk about the primary care crisis, we often focus on patients who don’t have a family doctor,” said said Dr. Gupta.