Dr. Matthew Donlan, a pediatrician at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, was struggling with patients leaving the emergency room with diagnoses like asthma and no followup care planned, often returning to the ER because of a lack of other options — a gap that persists across the province today.
“Everybody deserves care,” he told The Gazette’s Katelyn Thomas. That simple concept is what prompted him to launch an initiative connecting children to doctors in their communities across Quebec.
