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Global movement puts a process around referring patients to non-clinical and community-based programs and services By Stuart Foxman For more than 15 years, Dr. Gary Bloch, a family physician in Toronto, has helped a patient named Patrick (a pseudonym) through all sorts of challenges. Patrick has dealt with cancer, diabetes, and mental illness, and has benefitted from good connections to specialists, pharmacists, and a hospital. “He has been very well served medically,” says Dr. Bloch, a co-founder of Inner City Health Associates. But, Patrick, now in his 50s, had other challenges. He lives alone in low-income housing in a tiny apartment that Dr. Bloch learned was poorly maintained. And he described himself as isolated, with little-to-no social supports. “We spent a lot of time on his medical conditions, but what were we missing?” says Dr. Bloch, who chairs the Family Health Team’s Social Determinants of Health Committee at St. Michael’s Hospital. “So let’s look at this from a more holi

Social Prescribing | Dialogue - CPSO's Publication for Ontario Doctors Social Prescribing Social Prescribing Global movement puts a process around referring patients to non-clinical and community-based programs and services December 2023 Reading Time 10 min. December 2023 Reading Time 10 min. Play Audio Version Illustration: Tiago Galo Global movement puts a process around referring patients to non-clinical and community-based programs and services By Stuart Foxman For more than 15 years, Dr. Gary Bloch, a family physician in Toronto, has helped a patient named Patrick (a pseudonym) through al

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