Dr. Matthew Ladda, a new family doctor in Collingwood, has quickly filled his roster with 450 patients from local wait lists. He faces significant work to catch up patients who have been unattached for years, reviewing thousands of pages of old records. Ladda, who grew up in New Brunswick and trained at the University of Toronto, is committed to providing care in Collingwood for at least five years. Municipalities in South Georgian Bay are investing in physician recruitment to address the ongoing crisis in family medicine, with an estimated 6,000-7,000 people in the region lacking a local family doctor.