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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie

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13-10-2022 | Editorials

Response to: No community left behind: advancing rural anesthesia, surgery, and obstetric care in Canada

Authors: Dolores M. McKeen, MD, MSc, FRCPC, CCPE, Daniel Bainbridge, MD, FRCPC

Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Issue 12/2022

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We read with sadness and optimism the Editorial by McVicar et al. “No community left behind: advancing rural anesthesia, surgery, and obstetric care in Canada” in this edition of the Journal.¹ In their commentary, the authors discuss a recently published consensus statement (co-authored by two of them, Drs Orser and Wilson) on networks for high-quality rural anesthesia, surgery, and obstetric care in Canada that presents a model for partnerships between family physician generalists and anesthesia, surgical, and obstetrical specialists.² The authors advocate for a generalist-specialist network approach to remote and rural anesthesia care in Canada. We wish to thank the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief for the invitation to respond to and clarify several assertions made by the authors. …

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Title: Response to: No community left behind: advancing rural anesthesia, surgery, and obstetric care in Canada
Authors: Dolores M. McKeen, MD, MSc, FRCPC, CCPE
Daniel Bainbridge, MD, FRCPC
Publication date: 13-10-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie / Issue 12/2022
Print ISSN: 0832-610X
Electronic ISSN: 1496-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-022-02341-x

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