The 12-bed critical care unit is gleaming as you would expect in a new hospital, but that’s not all that’s new. The patients have more privacy, the nurses are smiling and the model of care is markedly different.
North Bay family physician Dr. Wendy Graham has launched a personal health record application that will allow patients to share information about their medications, allergies and chronic diseases with health-care providers and family members.
Dr. Karen Booth was born and raised in Toronto, went to medical school at the U of T and did her residency in family medicine in Ottawa, but she and her husband chose to make their home in tiny Richard’s Landing on St. Joseph Island.