Health care crisis: looking beyond the obvious
> You start your day with Luke, a 62-year-old patient without a regular family physician, who is facing housing insecurity and poverty. He explains he has been unable to work for years due to a back herniation. He requests renewals for his hydromorphone and pregabalin prescriptions and asks for a
Authors
- Maxine Dumas Pilon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2089-7110)
- Ross E.G. Upshur
- Mathieu Moreau
- Christy Simpson
- Daniel Buchman
- Timothy Holland
Institutions
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CA)
- College of Family Physicians of Canada (CA)
- Public Health Ontario (CA)
- Krembil Research Institute
- Canadian Blood Services (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Canadian Family Physician
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.7204e131
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00