Quotes

"For a lot of people in marginalized communities the only care they've experienced is in emergency [rooms]. So what we do is go out to the shelters and provide outreach medical care. It's like Doctors Within Borders. Go where no one else will go. Don't see borders or barriers as an issue."

- Dr. Trevor Corneil
Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Medical Director for Urban Primary Care for Vancouver Coastal Health

"Access is the health issue in rural, remote northern settings. And this doesn't so much mean access to an MRI or to sophisticated procedures. This is access to a nurse, or a nurse practitioner, or a doctor of any kind."

- Roger Strasser
Dean, Northern Ontario School of Medicine

"Even though [Canada is] a very multicultural society and we're committed as a country to diversity and to fair play, there are still huge inequities where access to health care is concerned."

- Judith Ramirez
Founder, Immigrant Women's Health Centre
Toronto, Ontario

"When you're working with young people, you're working on the future. If you can intervene and turn someone around at that stage, then it will really make a difference in how they live out the rest of their lives."

- Kim Daly
Nurse Manager, Victoria Youth Clinic
Victoria, British Columbia

"Labrador is roughly about the size of the U.K. It's a huge geographic area and dispersed. We serve a lot of remote communities.... The only way we can travel between [some] communities is either by plane or by boat...so this is a remote region. Despite that, we are pretty well fully staffed with physicians."

- Dr. Michael Jong
Northern Family Medicine Education Program (NorFaM)
Newfoundland and Labrador

"If you work closely with the community instead of just the individual, then you ask yourself: are their basic needs being met? That's the way we need to be thinking. That's the right direction."

- Kathy Faries
Nurse Practitioner,
Sagamok and Whitefish Lake Reserves,Northern Ontario

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