Dr. Akila Whiley said that when she first arrived in Red Lake, she realized that she loved the autonomy that comes with practicing in the rural north.
It's 9:15 a.m. at Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital in Red Lake, Ont., as staff crowd around the white board in the hallway across from the nursing station for their daily huddle.
Whiley is originally from Halifax, but she did her residency at the University of Toronto and discovered that urban family practice wasn't for her. Sumeet Kumar, the CEO of the Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital in Red Lake, Ont., leads a morning huddle in the corridor. Some of the older physicians stopped working with patients face-to-face, reducing the number of doctors available for ER shifts, explained Dr. Andrew Gloster, another physician in the town."I do remember my colleagues… saying that it hasn't always been this way, you know? 'Stick with it. Things get better,'" Whiley said. "And so you really latch on to that.".
After the closure, physicians across northern Ontario stepped up lobbying efforts for both temporary and permanent solutions to the ER staffing crisis. "I remember opening the e-mail, and at that point – which is very telling – feeling almost so hardened that I couldn't even receive the information," said Whiley, who had just come through a period of trading 24-hour ER shifts with a single other doctor.
By the end of 2023, Red Lake is on track to have only around four full-time equivalent physicians, according to the numbers provided by the chair of the town's health care committee.
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