Kirk Corkery is a former chair of York Central Hospital (now McKenzie Health) in Richmond Hill, Ont. He is also a former Vice Chair of Kingston Health Sciences Centre in Kingston.
The news from the recently released Canadian Institute for Health Information report on emergency department (ED) congestion is not new. Nor is the news from the survey by the Ontario Medical Association on ED congestion.
There are multiple solutions to today’s challenges; more family physicians is not the only approach we should consider. We should not remain handcuffed by history.