Andrew Boozary

Joining me to talk about this most recent innovative initiative is Dr. Andrew Buzeri.

He is a primary care physician, founding executive director of the Gattuso Center for Social Medicine at the University Health Network.

Welcome back to the program, doctor.

Thanks for having me back, Deb.

And again, I think, you know, this is out of tons of respect for colleagues in the emergency department, to your point, where there's increasing volumes and pressures yeah what the study found is that this would have been nearly 4 500 emergency department visits that were averted so it's concrete it's real we need to see more of it scaled we need to ensure that there's more of these services taking place in various parts of the the city and the country because these are not issues that are unique to downtown toronto this is playing out sadly in far too many parts of the country And, you know, again, the gratitude for the belief in the pilot.

And now again, we're one of my favorite quotes from the former Minister of Health is that we are a graveyard of pilot projects in Canadian healthcare and hoping to see these pilot projects actually be sustained and scaled is where I'm really hopeful.

Dr. Andrew Buzeri is a primary care physician, founding executive director of the Cattuzzo Center for Social Medicine at the University Health Network.

Thanks, as always, for the conversation.