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The Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) presents a session discussing the erosion of family medical services in Lethbridge.
The Family Medicine Crisis in Lethbridge — What are the Causes & Implications for the Citizens of Lethbridge?
Thursday, February 24, 2022 – 12 p.m., MST
YouTube Live link: https://youtu.be/7z9JqOwUROA
Citizens of Southern Alberta have been suffering through crises of different sorts over the past several years. Congruent with the Covid-19 pandemic has been a gradual but persisting loss of family physicians in the city of Lethbridge, and with them the loss of access to primary care. By the end of 2021, approximately 45% of Lethbridge citizens found themselves without a family physician. Dr. Samuel deWalle, a Lethbridge family physician, will take you through the history of this serious corrosion of health care, explore its causes and implications, and discuss what may happen next.
Speaker: Dr. Samuel deWalle
Dr. Samuel deWalle is a family physician living and working in Lethbridge, Alberta since 2013. He graduated from Calvin University in Grand Rapids Michigan, and then the University of Calgary Medical School, before completing his residency in Rural Family Medicine in southern Alberta. He is the outgoing president of a family medicine clinic in Lethbridge, a board member of the Chinook Primary Care Network, a Civil Aviation Medical Examiner, and a Medical School Clinical Lecturer. All opinions stated are his alone and do not represent any other business or institution.
In order to ask questions of our speaker in the chat feature of YouTube, you must have a YouTube account and be signed in. Please do so well ahead of the scheduled start time, so you’ll be ready. Go the YouTube Live link provided in this session flyer and on the top right of your browser click the “sign in” button. If you have Google or Gmail accounts, they can be used to sign in. If you don’t, click “Create Account” and follow along. Once you are signed in, you can return to the live stream and use the chat feature to ask your questions of the speaker.
Remember, you can only participate in the chat feature while we are livestreaming.
Link to SACPA’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SouthernAlbertaCouncilonPublicAffairs
For further information, visit the SACPA website.
Contact:
Trevor Kenney | trevor.kenney@uleth.ca | sacpa.ca