Travelling by rail through floodwaters to a town inaccessible by vehicle and delivering medications by helicopter to communities isolated by rockslides – for Dr. Aseem Grover, providing rural health care requires near-constant problem solving.
In this episode of The Heart of It, Dr. Grover shares why unrelenting positivity is at the heart of his work, how he balances risk when finding solutions to complex challenges and why he loves practicing rural health care.
Guest bio
Dr. Aseem Grover is a rural family physician in Hope, B.C.
His responsibilities are diverse, encompassing patient care at a family medicine clinic, serving as site medical director for the 10-bed Fraser Canyon Hospital, and providing primary care and medication delivery to remote areas.
His medical interests are chronic complex care, rural emergency medicine and addictions medicine.
About The Heart of It
Every episode, Dr. Victoria Lee, president and CEO of Fraser Health, take listeners to the heart of health care, where passion, dedication and innovation drive individual, community and planetary health.
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This episode of The Heart of It was recorded on the traditional, ancestral and unceded shared territories of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Coquitlam, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen First Nations, and on the home of the Surrey-Delta Métis Association.
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