To your point, I was an emergency physician in a small community for 10 years, and we had no specialists. When somebody had a fractured femur, I'd put an IV in, splint them, and then I'd call the orthopedic guy in North Bay. The difference here is that you guys aren't calling Dr. Wood and Dr. Ujjainwalla. It would be so easy to implement a program where emergency doctors would call the addiction guy, they'd put them on suboxone, they'd send them to my clinic the next day, and then we'd get them into treatment with some counsellors whom the government pays for. That's it. It would happen so fast. What we're missing is that piece. The emergency doctors aren't doing that. They're missing a unique opportunity. They see them as drug seekers.
On October 20th, 2016. See this statement in context.