By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter KENORA – A “critical shortage” of physicians has the Lake of the Woods District Hospital’s emergency department on the brink of closure, hospital officials say. The hospital has gone from having 20 physicians who worked in emergency in early 2022 to just nine part-time ER docs today, according to a news release on Wednesday. “The critical shortage of physicians we are experiencing has created a situation which is unsustainable,” said Dr. Sean Moore, the Kenora hospital’s chief of staff. “Without significant change to our health-care system, I cannot see how it is physically possible for such a small group of doctors to maintain our current services,” said Dr. Meghan Olson, medical staff president on the hospital’s board of directors. Emergency is being kept…
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