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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Medical association president gives care to homeless (article in the Toronto Star)

Article about Dr. Jeff Turnbull, president of the Canadian Medical Association.

"A couple of days every week ... Turnbull checks up on patients in his volunteer role as medical director of Ottawa Inner City Health. The project, which he co-founded in March 2001, led to him receiving the Order of Canada in 2007....

"'Obviously, I feel strongly about equity in health care and this has given me the opportunity to talk about that,' Turnbull says of heading up the CMA.

"But he also argues that providing better health care to the homeless is also just cost-saving common sense.

"'I would see people coming back to my emergency department time and time again,' Turnbull says, ..."

Full article: Medical association president gives care to homeless.

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