It is a big problem. One of the things we need to do is make sure the family physicians who are in practice are provided the right kinds of supports, with a proper team, to help them in practice. This is particularly important in rural areas, where family doctors are in short supply.
Secondly, we need to make family medicine more attractive than it has been. It has lagged behind the other professions in terms of financial rewards and other supports over the past decade.
Thirdly, a lot of those 30,000 family physicians are doing a lot of different things. Many are working in emergency departments; many are providing chronic care; many are providing other kinds of medicine, like sports medicine. So they're not all providing a full range of family medicine. We need to return to encouraging family physicians to do the full scope of practice as well, particularly in rural areas. We're good at that, and we'd like to encourage more doctors to do that in order to take a load off the rest of the health care system.