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The Cost of Care

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Unable to meet rising costs, the rural doctor becomes a vanishing breed

by Alastair Brown

photography by Arantxa Cedillo

Published in the April 2006 issue.  » BUY ISSUE     

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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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Comments (1 comments)

Brooke: what exactly is the cost of an actual walrus.
my friend and I would like to buy one. November 03, 2007 12:05 EST

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