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Over the past month, clinics have seen a surge of sick children presenting with RSV, the flu and other viruses. (Shutterstock)

November 22, 2022

Flu, RSV and COVID‑19: Advice from family doctors on how to get through this winter’s ‘tripledemic’

Lita Cameron, McMaster University and Skylar Neblett, McMaster University

Family physicians are on the frontline of health care, and their observations and support can help us get through the upcoming winter season.

Until the government acknowledges the critical role family physicians have in population health and on easing the burden on acute hospital care, pressures will only be relieved temporarily. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

September 8, 2022

With family doctors heading for the exits, addressing the crisis in primary care is key to easing pressure on emergency rooms

Colleen Grady, Queen's University, Ontario

A strong primary care system keeps patients away from emergency departments and helps patients self-manage illnesses. But Ontario’s plan to ease pressure on emergency rooms ignores family medicine.

Family physicians are a relatively new innovation in the South African health system. Dalton Dingelstad

May 1, 2018

Family physicians are improving health care in South Africa’s rural communities

Bob Mash, Stellenbosch University and Klaus B von Pressentin, Stellenbosch University

Family physicians have started to play a key role in the district health system in South Africa.

A doctor immunises a baby at the Shire Clinic in Ethiopia. Most health systems in Africa are fully developed. UNICEF Ethiopia/2009/Tuschman

October 27, 2016

Family doctors are the key to improving primary health care in communities

Bob Mash, Stellenbosch University

Africa is the last continent to embrace the need to train family physicians as a key component of the primary health care team and district hospitals.

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