‘6 million Canadians do not have standard medical access’: Livio Di Matteo on why so many Canadians don’t have access to a doctor

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Francis Silva undergoes treatment at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, B.C., May 7, 2024. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.

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15 Aug 24

Livio Di Matteo, professor of economics at Lakehead University, discusses his recent DeepDive for The Hub on how Canada’s supply of physicians as a share of the population is rising at the same time that a growing number of Canadians don’t have doctors and the factors behind this counterintuitive trend.

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