Rebuilding the primary care infrastructure one research project at a time

摘要

If you chip away at foundation walls and remove critical supports, any structure will eventually collapse. So it should not have been a surprise when the Canadian health care system began teetering in the 1990s after its foundation, primary care, had been undermined by more than 2 decades of neglect. How did that happen? Easily. Arrogance and complacency with the belief that our system was the best in the world allowed the medical establishment, government decision makers, politicians, and the public to look away as the primary care infrastructure was critically weakened. Then alarm bells started ringing.