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Disruption is the latest buzzword, but the fundamental meaning is the same: change. Everywhere you look across Ontario, the country or even around the world, there is growing pressure to transform health care — how it’s funded, how it’s delivered, how it’s even conceived.
Medicine, a profession thousands of years old, is under pressure to change.
Yet.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
It took Kirsten Hudak and I most of a day and three planes to fly out to northern Ontario’s First Nations communities: Toronto to Thunder Bay to Sioux Lookout to Keewaywin and North Caribou Lake First Nations reserves. Roughly the same amount of time it takes to fly across the country from Toronto, ON to Vancouver, BC.
None of it prepared me for what I witnessed. Life is hard up here, hard in ways that it simply shouldn’t be.
