Category Archives: Health

Telehealth Ontario is a free service that offers health advice given by a nurse. For the times when you wonder whether a fever is high enough to be worried about, or whether your son’s bump on the head could be serious, it … Continue reading →

These days in Ontario, it is very difficult to find a family doctor. When we moved to Cambridge, we called a number of doctors before we found one that was taking new patients. Then we each had to fill out a … Continue reading →

There seems to be a bit of a doctor shortage in Toronto these days. The walk-in clinic down the street has not been able to offer that service for months now because they have not been able to hire a doctor. … Continue reading →

After waiting a few weeks for a hospital bed to become available, my aunt finally had surgery on the 15 pound tumor in her abdomen. Only the tumor was now 25 pounds and the added weight caused another organ to … Continue reading →

Lately, our family have been experiencing first-hand, our “wonderful” health care system here in Canada. For those of you in less fortunate countries, we have free public health care – which means we don’t pay when we see the doctor … Continue reading →