I live in rural New Brunswick. To give you a bit of background, when I worked in the diabetes education centre, I thought that, over 15 or 16 years of practising, I had seen most people living in my area with type 2 and type 1 diabetes who needed help. When I moved into family practice, I will say that three-quarters of the people I saw in family practice had never seen a diabetes educator before. They were not accessing care at an education centre, whether it was because of the stigma of going to a hospital, or they didn't want to go there because they were sick, or they couldn't get there because they lived in such rural areas that it took them an hour to get to the education centre, making that inaccessible.
On November 22nd, 2018. See this statement in context.