For the first time in 200 years, people on this Canadian island will be without a doctor

Fogo Island will lose its only full-time physician in June, leaving the community to journey six hours away to find care

For more than two centuries, residents of a remote Canadian island in the north Atlantic knew they could count on a nearby doctor for relief of most ailments.

But this June, Fogo Island will lose the community's only full-time physician, a trend mirrored in many of Newfoundland's towns and villages as the region battles economic decline and a looming demographic crisis. The closest doctor will be a six-hour ferry ride away, subject to the vagaries of powerful maritime storms.