Whether you are a patient, a family member, a physician, or a concerned Ontarian; share your experience or reason for why you support the OUFP.
Keep scrolling below to read what fellow Ontarians are saying!
Browse below for a selection of media publications about the Ontario family medicine and family doctor crisis including OUFP’s advocacy for a sustainable family doctor landscape.
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Read Dr Brownrigg’s full article as a guest post on Dr. Sohail Gandhi’s website.
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Read Dr. Gandhi’s full article here.
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“More than 450 family doctors who are members of the grassroots Ontario Union of Family Physicians are planning to close their offices for part of Friday during a coordinated day of protest. We speak to Dr. Ramsey Hijazi one of the organizers of the protest.”
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Listen to the radio interview (click the link) with the OUFP about the concerning and ongoing growing gap between available residency training spots for family medicine and medical graduates who actually want to be family physicians.
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Watch CBC journalist Mike Crawley give a run through about the current family physician crisis. See the full written article with more details here.
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“Organizations representing doctors in Ontario say the province’s payments to family physicians have fallen well behind inflation, and the erosion of their income is prompting doctors to opt out of family medicine.“
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Listen to Dr Sohail Gandhi (click the link) discuss his jointly written op-ed.
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Read the full article (click the link) at the Toronto Star. Written by Dr. Nadia Alam (former OMA president), Dr Sohail Gandhi (former OMA president), and Dr Silvy Matthew (former OMA Executive Board member).
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Watch the CBC interview (click the link and scan to 14min.45sec.) with the OUFP about the Ontario Family Medicine Healthcare crisis.
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Watch the OUFP speak about Family Medicine being unsustainable and why despite the government’s investment announcements that family DOCTORS’ concerns are not being adequately addressed.
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Watch OUFP comment on the family medicine crisis.
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Watch the CTV OTTAWA interview (click the link) with the OUFP about the Ontario Family Medicine Healthcare crisis.
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Read the full article (click the link) by Ottawa-Citizen journalist Elizabeth Payne.
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Watch the CBC interview (click the link and scan to 8min.30sec.) with the OUFP about the Ontario Family Medicine Healthcare crisis and the OUFPs career summit for alternative careers.
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Listen to the radio interview (click the link) with the OUFP about its first career summit with over 100 Family Medicine Doctors supporting one another in exploring alternatives to the unsustainable family medicine clinical practice crisis.
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Listen to the radio interview (click the link) with the OUFP about job action to urge the provincial government to listen to family physicians’ concerns and solutions about the family medicine crisis.
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Watch the CBC interview (click the link and scan to 15min.30sec.) with the OUFP about the Ontario Family Medicine Healthcare crisis.
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Listen to the radio interview (click the link) with the OUFP about job action to urge the provincial government to listen to family physicians’ concerns and solutions about the family medicine crisis.
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Listen to the radio interview (click the link) with the OUFP about job action to urge the provincial government to listen to family physicians’ concerns and solutions about the family medicine crisis.
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Read the full article (click the link) by Ottawa-Citizen journalist Elizabeth Payne.
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Listen to the interview between the OUFP and CTV NewsTalk Radio 1010 The Rush.
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Read & Watch the full news segment (click the link) between Dr. Nadia Alam, the OUFP, and CTV News Toronto / CP24. Be sure to check out the Extended interview with Dr. Nadia Alam.
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Listen to the morning radio interview (click the link) between the OUFP and CBC Ottawa Morning Radio with Robyn Bresnahan.
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Read the full article (click the link) by Ottawa-Citizen journalist Elizabeth Payne.
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