Emo Clinic

02/02/2026

Dr Spencer Pearce also joined our practice in September. He declines to add a photo. He graduated from Western University, and their Family Medicine program. We are slowly adding new patients to our roster. If you live in our catchment area from Devlin to Stratton and north to Nestor Falls, and aren't currently rostered anywhere you can call to get your name on our list.

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02/02/2026

Hello Emo!
My name is Dr. Aisha Ahmed, and I am very excited and grateful to be joining your community as a new family physician. I am an internationally trained family physician with over 15 years of clinical, academic and leadership experience across 3 continents. With proven expertise in comprehensive primary care, maternal and child health, chronic diseases management, and community health promotion. I am fully integrated into the Canadian healthcare system, with experience in rural and urban practices, hospital based care, interdisciplinary teams, and I am deeply committed to to providing compassionate, respectful and evidence based care to patients of all ages.
I am committed to building long-term relationships with my patients and being an active part of the Emo community. My goal is to promote health, prevent illness, and ensure everyone feels heard, supported, and cared for. I look forward to meeting you, learning from you and working together to keep our community healthy and strong. Thank you for the warm welcome, I am truly happy to be here!

10/25/2024

People have been stopping their Metformin because “they heard” it wasn’t good for you, caused long term problems, maybe cancer. "Its all over the news”.
I have not been able to find any recent news reports on Metformin use being dangerous, other than known side effects like gi upset/diarrhoea and the known concern for lactic acidosis if used in renal failure. This is fairly rare issue and occurs with renal failure. Metformin is typically stopped if renal function is diminishing. This should be monitored regularly along with the usual labs for diabetes.
What I did find is that Metformin may slow aging!, and that there seemed to be some benefit in reducing long Covid. It also seems it may reduce cancer risk and is being investigated as a cancer treatment.

So if you have been prescribed metformin please discuss with your health care provider before stopping. Make sure you are monitored regularly for your diabetes.

Here’s what I read:
What is the new discovery about metformin?
In a new study conducted in cynomolgus monkeys, researchers have shown that metformin, a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, can slow aging in multiple organs, including the brain.Sep 22, 2024
Aging: Diabetes drug metformin may slow down biological clock
Medical News Today.

An earlier NIH-supported clinical trial in 2023 showed that treatment with metformin, commonly used to help control blood sugar, reduced the risk of long COVID by as much as 40% in nearly 1,300 U.S. adults with overweight or obesity, most of whom did not have diabetes. Sep 17, 2024
National Institute of Health .gov

The prevalence of diabetes is dramatically increasing worldwide. The results of numerous epidemiological studies indicate that diabetic population is not only at increased risk of cardiovascular complications, but also at substantially higher risk of many forms of malignancies. The use of metformin, the most commonly prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes, was repeatedly associated with the decreased risk of the occurrence of various types of cancers, especially of pancreas and colon and hepatocellular carcinoma. This observation was also confirmed by the results of numerous meta-analyses.
Ann Transl Med 2014 Jun;2(6):57. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2014.06.01

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02/25/2023

10/31/2022

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09/09/2022

Donations can be made out to Riverside Foundation for Health Care and mailed to their address on web page. https://riversidehealthcare.ca/foundation Go to web site and click on donate, and then "other projects", then physician recruitment. can designate for Emo or for any physician recruitment

Riverside Foundation for Health Care is the fund raising entity of Riverside. Although we are a separate entity we work closely with Riverside Health Care to support excellence in health care for the residents of the Rainy River District. We work with the community and Riverside employees fund raisi...

09/07/2022

Ok community. We desperately need doctors and there is a doctor possibly interested in coming to Emo but is requesting accommodation, pet friendly, ie: big dogs, cats and parrots, to be covered. We need to raise money to cover the cost of renting a home for a couple years and furnishing it. We have also advertised a 60,000.00 signing bonus which has been offered by the Recruitment and Retention Committee in the past but presently no funds are available. The Recruitment and Retention committee would keep any funds donated by our community available for any Emo return of service agreement. So please donate so that when an opportunity like this presents itself we are ready to go. Pass the word along to others who don't have facebook. Any one with a house to rent let us know.

06/17/2022

03/23/2022

We have home covid test kits available for free. You can drop in and pick some up. We are maintaining our masking requirement for the protection of our vulnerable clients.

03/11/2022

Rumors are spreading that Dr. Meyers is retiring. Not in the immediate future. A few more years hopefully, and hopefully we can get some new physicians in the near future.

03/05/2022

Free online consults with a doctor are available. Check out Ontario’s list. I didn’t see Dial a doc on the list but there are more to choose from. Even if you are still rostered in Emo this will help keep appointments open for those needing to be seen in person. Dr. McGuire has moved back to Thunder Bay so in person appointments will be reduced. We are working on finding Locum coverage, both doctors and NP’s, to fill in. Obviously still trying to recruit. There is a new physician services agreement but I haven’t seen it yet. Hopefully it will be more attractive to come to these rural locations.

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