Quinte Health trying to ease doctors' workloads, improve care amid shortage

Quinte Health’s chief of staff is warning the corporation’s need for doctors could hamper efforts to recruit and retain more.In his June 23 written report to the board, Dr. Colin MacPherson noted the region’s aging population and “high prevalence of poor social determinants of health.“We already have high patient-to-physician ratios on our hospitalist services in Belleville and Trenton and a high on-call burden for all our internal medicine and family medicine phys