Primary Care Reform Needs More Than a Phone Call

On May 26, 2025, local family physician, Dr. Madura Sundareswaran guest blogged for Just an Old Family Doctor. Her blog post, Primary Care Reform Needs More Than a Phone Call captures the good and the bad of Ontario Health’s strategy for connecting people to primary health care.

“I’d like to apply the trending analogy of comparing our healthcare system to the public education system.

Imagine 30,000 children in your community suddenly need a place in schools – all at once. Instead of building new schools, adding classrooms, increasing the budget for school supplies, or hiring new teachers – the plan is to call each teacher and ask if they can “accept a few more students.” Not just one or two students– try about 100 each. Now teachers, please brainstorm how you can better meet this need (on your free time, of course).

Parents and teachers – would you allow this to happen?”

-Madura Sundareswaran

Read the article here.