Specialists

Provinces should pick up the tab for primary care by nurse specialists as soon as possible CBC News

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Yvette Jarvis sits wearing a pink top and looks at the camera with her hand on her chin.

Without a family doctor, Yvette Jarvis said she was forced to go to the emergency department to fill her prescriptions — a process that took an incredible 15 hours. She soon switched to a nurse practitioner (NP) instead, and said she paid nearly $2,500 over five years for the same service. The St. John resident … Read more

‘I’m sick of it’: one in two Australians priced out of the health care system

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Profile photo of a woman with short white hair in a green blazer and white shirt and red lipstick.

Amidst the unrelenting pressures of caring for three young children and an elderly and ailing mother, Ella Hillman strives to make sure everyone in her family gets the health care they need. The 36-year-old public servant lives in a two-income household, but said cost-of-living pressures have forced her to downsize. “We have a mortgage and … Read more