Posted AT 5:38 AM EDT on 19/06/08
Health survey: Bad habits, not enough doctors to help
More than four million Canadians don't have a family doctor, according to the health survey by Statscan. However, only 1.7 million of those said they couldn't find a family doctor after looking for one. People who said they were in good health, particularly men and women aged 20 to 34, were less likely to have looked for a family doctor.
Despite the absence of a regular family doctor, nearly 80 per cent, or about 3.
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