I hadn't heard of AppleTree, but having just looked at its website, Im guessing that its private specialized care in the Ottawa area, and not fully-public primary care. It seems to be a collective of various practitioners that specialize in dental, physio, eye, diagnostic, etc.. Is this your "regular" doctor? My guess is that they would probably be a specialist of some sort (perhaps in addition to their regular practice), but I have no idea. What I was refering to is the new way that the delivery of primary health care (ie., physicals, sore throats, "my arm hurts when I do this") has been structurally reorganized in Ontario. I think that AppleTree is more in the new wave of private collectives of practitioners (whose services, quite confusingly, are paid for thru OHIP, your own employers' insurance plan, and possibly some out of pocket user fees - a $15 fee for a massage, sorta thing, maybe). For sure, its starting to get quite messy in health care as to delivery and pay. Quite messy.
