As she battles stage three cancer, Kittana Ruels, 45, can\u2019t help wondering if things would have done differently if she had a family doctor.
Kittana Ruels, 45 from North Bay, Ont. She says people need to advocate for themselves in the medical system, especially those who don't have a family doctor.Ruels, who previously battled breast cancer in 2018, gets a yearly scan but says getting tested was more challenging when she lost her family doctor after moving to North Bay from Mississauga during the pandemic.
She says North Bay Hospital has three appointments for her with a mammogram at the end of August, an ultrasound at the end of October, and a bone scan in the New Year. “I picked up my records and read for myself that I had cancer. I found out by sitting in the waiting room at my son’s appointment that I had cancer again. No one called me,” she says.
Ruels is in the midst of an aggressive battle with stage three breast cancer, having just undergone a double mastectomy, and soon to face chemotherapy and then radiation. “Now I do have a family doctor, but it took my life being at risk to get a doctor, and that shouldn’t be how it is,” Ruels says. Newbery says there are currently over 2.2 million people living in Ontario without a family physician, up from 1.8 million reported by the college in November of last year.She notes that twice as many family physicians left practice during the pandemic relative to the historical average.“I feel like we’re being slighted. It’s like no one cares. Not the doctors — the doctors care, the nurses care, and the people in medical care.
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