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The COVID-19 pandemic has put an additional strain on all facets of Canada's health care system, but the emerging profession of physician assistants could help ease the burden.
Doctors, hospital managers and universities all agree the country needs more of them. But 10 years after the first physician assistants graduated from Canadian universities, there are fewer than 800 in the entire country.
As Ross Lords reports, the calls to grow the positions have gone unanswered.
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Doctors, hospital managers and universities all agree the country needs more of them. But 10 years after the first physician assistants graduated from Canadian universities, there are fewer than 800 in the entire country.
As Ross Lords reports, the calls to grow the positions have gone unanswered.
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