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Without clearly documented plans, research indicates family members are wrong about the end-of-life care preferences of their loved ones approximately one-third of the time, writes Dr. Tavis Apramian. A patient is brought into the emergency unit at Lasalle Hospital in Montreal on April 17. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press) This column is an opinion by Dr. Tavis Apramian, MD/PhD, a family medicine resident at McMaster University in Hamilton.
The current approach to medical school admissions relies almost entirely on the assumption that doctors will treat the patients who need them the most. But, for the most part, doctors don’t choose to practice based on where patients need them the most; instead, doctors are more likely to go back to where they grew up or stay in the town or city in which they went to school. And, unfortunately, our doctors rarely come from low income families.
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