Would you pay to see a family doctor faster? Quebecers are, and critics are worried
2024-11-23 from cbc.ca
Audrey Leveillé's four-month-old son, William, had been sick for about a week, running a fever on and off.
Worried, the mom of two wanted to rule out infection, but couldn't face the prospect of an hours-long wait in a hospital emergency department, she said. So Leveillé took her baby to Clinique Santé Plus, a private family practice in Vaudreuil, Que., about 45 kilometres outside Montreal.
"There's no infection today, which is great news. We just need to keep watching his symptoms over the next few days," she told Dr. Brian Goldman, host of CBC Radio's White Coat, Black Art in an interview at the clinic last month.
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