THE EXAMINER/WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009
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New doctor excited
to join innovative
family health teams
BY JOANNE CULLEY changes that are taking place in the
Special to the Examiner medical community here,” she says. “I
Even though she has just been in
really wanted to work within the family
Peterborough for three months, Dr.
health team model.”
Mabel Mak already knows she loves it
There are five Family Health Teams
here. She started her practice in the
in the city.
Special to The Examiner
Medical Centre at 707 Charlotte St. on
As part of the Medical Centre, Mak
Dr. Mabel Mak came to Peterborough, from her practise in Alberta, in November.
Nov. 3.
and the other doctors in the
“We have family here and we were
building comprise one of the
looking for a smaller community in
teams, which aim to increase
which to raise our two young children,”
the number of people who get
ProHome Health Services
she says.
medical care amid a doctor
Mak went to medical school and did
shortage.
her residency in the Faculty of Medicine
Through the teams, patients
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social workers, mental health
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She feels Ontario is ahead of Alberta
laboratory and diagnostic
in terms of its multi-disciplinary
imaging.
Dr. John Beamish
approach to health care.
“I was attracted by the exciting (See: One-stop...Page 10)
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