In 2025, Canada’s healthcare system finds itself at a breaking point. A staggering 6.5 million Canadians are without a family doctor, leaving many to seek desperate alternatives (Ontario Medical Association, 2025). In Nova Scotia, a 96-year-old woman recently placed a newspaper ad hoping to find a primary care physician after going without one for nearly three years (New York Post, 2025). Emergency rooms remain overwhelmed, with wait times for surgeries and specialist care increasing across the country (Ontario Medical Association, 2025).

There’s a quiet, undeniable power in the exact moment everything shifts. It might not be dramatic or perfectly timed, but you feel it — a conversation, a decision, a realization that things can’t stay the same. In healthcare, we’re used to managing the day-to-day, sticking to what’s familiar because it feels safe. But the truth is, nothing meaningful happens in comfort zones.

Change is rarely comfortable, and it’s almost never neat. In healthcare — where lives, workflows, and outcomes are deeply intertwined — even small adjustments can feel like disruption. But here’s the truth: all meaningful change is preceded by a period of uncertainty, tension, and, yes, a little chaos. It’s in those moments of discomfort that old ways of thinking get challenged and new possibilities begin to take shape.