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Devina Wadhwa, MD, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist practicing in Northern Ontario with an interest in physician well-being and rural health systems.
We have more language than ever to describe mental health, but not always more clarity about what those words mean.
If Canada hopes to strengthen its health-care system, we must recognize and support the profession that sustains it every day.
Burnout in Northern Ontario is not simply about being tired. It is about being stretched across distance, across roles, and across unmet needs. It reflects the broader challenge of delivering care in a vast country with uneven resource distribution.