Rising costs, new administrative duties and subsequent burnout have made it impossible for physician Fan-Wah Mang to keep her Mississauga clinic open. Delivering the news to her patients—many of whom have nowhere else to go—broke her heart
"Everybody’s exhausted. We’ve had people break down in tears in the middle of their shifts"
"We're seeing younger and healthier patients who feel truly awful with Covid"
"We're running, we're short-staffed, there are children screaming and crying. It's chaotic"
"Each unit has two rooms, two anterooms and a nursing station, as well as its own HVAC system so there’s no cross-contamination"
“Maybe a young person who looks like me is watching my address and thinking that she would like to be a doctor one day”
On April 19, I left Toronto for Fort Smith, via Edmonton. My journey was bizarre
There's no easy cure for a system as sick as ours