Tag: Ontario Healthcare

Strip Mall Medicine in Ottawa, Ontario, Part Two: The Plot Thickens

Strip Mall Medicine in Ottawa, Ontario, Part Two: The Plot Thickens   Based on a John Grisham novel of the same name, Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic courtroom drama The Rainmaker recounts the trials and tribulations of fledgling lawyer Rudy Baker, played by Matt Damon, who is forced to take work as an ambulance chaser with..

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I can’t get no…family doctor

I can’t get no…family doctor   Being new to Ontario, my wife and I assiduously followed the Ontario Health Insurance Plan instructions and put our names on a waiting list for a family doctor. We learned that there are about 250,000 supplicants without a personal physician in our city alone. By the time we’re allocated..

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