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‘Health care in this province sucks’: Hundreds wait for chance to get doctor in Kingston, Ont.

Hundreds of people lined up in the cold and rain outside a Kingston health clinic for hours Wednesday morning, desperate to find a doctor. It marked the third day in a row a line stretched for blocks outside CDK Family Medicine and Walk-In Clinic on Sutherland Drive after the clinic …

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Sask. physician incentive more than quadrupling for rural and remote communities

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Saskatchewan is sweetening the pot to try and get more family physicians to work in rural and remote parts of the province. The Rural Physician Incentive Program is more than quadrupling the incentive, raising it to $200,000 over five years. Read more: …

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Average wait time at IWK children’s hospital 6 hours: senior N.S. health officials – Halifax

Senior officials with Nova Scotia’s Health Department have provided answers on the state of the province’s health system. They were questioned last week during the Public Accounts committee meeting by Liberal MLA and Health and Wellness shadow minister Brendan Maguire. Maguire called on the officials to release more information on …

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