Pandemic Spurred Exodus of Ontario Family Doctors, Study Indicates

Pandemic Spurred Exodus of Ontario Family Doctors, Study Indicates
A doctor wears a stethoscope around his neck as he tends to patients in his office this file photo. The Canadian Press/Jeff Roberson
The Canadian Press
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Ontario family doctors left the profession at the start of the pandemic at double the rate of the years before COVID-19 hit, new research indicates.

About three percent of family doctors across the province – 385 doctors – stopped practising between March and September 2020, according to a study led by Unity Health Toronto that was published Monday in Annals of Family Medicine.