The Question
Three years ago my family doctor stopped practising medicine and made no effort to help me find a new physician. One potential new doctor refused me because I was over 60. Another said only new patients with chronic diseases were being accepted. A third interviewed me and she practises at a clinic halfway to Banff (I’m from Calgary) but she is all I could get. What is the best way to find a family doctor?
The Answer
The Ontario government plans to exempt hospitals from being obliged to respond to freedom-of-information requests related to quality of care on the grounds that doing so will encourage more frank discussion of medical errors. But critics say the “hospital secrecy clause,†as they call it, is entirely unjustified.
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