The male primary care physician

Kevin

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March 18, 2008

Endangered: “‘We’re a dying breed,’ says Dr. Ian Young, a 39-year-old family physician in Barrie, Ont.

Young is among a minority of young men choosing to go into family practice, where women already make up half of doctors and will soon dramatically outnumber men. Two-thirds of residents in family medicine are female, according to the 2007 Canadian Medical Education Statistics.”