Help to Find Doctors

Ontario's Health Minister David Caplan expects residents of northern Ontario to have many doctors to choice from in the not to distant future.

Caplan says 70 percent of the Northern Ontario Medical School's first year graduates plan to go into family practices - hopefully in this part of the province.

"We don't have a way to force people where to work," says Caplan, "but the feedback we're getting is that people who come from the north, who are trained in the north, and understand the needs of the community and the kind of practice you'll have in rural and northern medicine will stay there."

Meantime, the province has set up the Health Care Connect website to help residents find a doctor more immediately.