“Everybody deserves care.”
A simple concept is what prompted Dr. Matthew Donlan, a pediatrician at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, to launch an initiative connecting children to doctors in their communities in Quebec.
Donlan had been struggling with patients leaving the emergency room with diagnoses like asthma and no followup care planned, often returning to the ER because of a lack of other options — a gap that persists across the province today, The Gazette's Katelyn Thomas reports.
