The Cost of Care

Unable to meet rising costs, the rural doctor becomes a vanishing breed
By Alastair Brown
· photography by Arantxa Cedillo
Health · From the April 2006 magazine
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While a nation with access to primary care is healthier, happier, and more productive, the social aspect of medicine has been largely forgotten, and a doctor’s familiar bedside manner replaced by the prescription of quick remedies. It is a comfort to know that there are still physicians like Dr. Mihu in Canada, doctors who know us personally and care about our welfare. But perhaps under the current system we just cannot afford this comfort.”
Alastair Brown recently made a film about Dr. Mihu and her patients, A Country Doctor, for the National Film Board. He has a cottage in Kinmount.
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BrookeNovember 03, 2007 15:05 EST

what exactly is the cost of an actual walrus.
my friend and I would like to buy one.

AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 00:50 EST

i would also like to know

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