Dr. Garth Slysz leaving Charlottetown practice

A well-known Charlottetown doctor will be leaving the Island for a new job.

Dr. Garth Slysz, a family physician in Sherwood, will start a new job in January as a professor of clinical medicine in St. Kitts in the Caribbean.

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