Why it's so hard to find a family doctor in Ontario

Some communities in Ontario are turning into ‘doctor deserts’ due to a spike in retirements of family physicians and not enough young physicians to replace them. The CBC's Mike Crawley zeros in on the crisis in a province where 1.8 million people don’t have a family doctor.

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