Inside my three-day nightmare at a children’s ER
“If this madness continues, children are going to die here this winter”
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This B.C. clinic is charging $110 a month for access to a doctor. Is this the new normal?
Clinic owners are addressing the country’s widespread shortage of physicians with some creative solutions—doctor subscription, anyone?
A doctor in one of Canada’s long-COVID clinics on the real dangers of the diagnosis
“I’ve seen marathon runners who can’t walk a block without being short of breath”
A doctor’s dilemma
My job as a family physician in small-town British Columbia is a dream come true. It’s also nearly impossible to do.
I’ve only been a nurse for eight months. The chaos is killing me.
Jacelyn Wingerter is a Saskatchewan hospital nurse facing the impossible. “We have 35 beds in our department, and 100 patients needing treatment.”
I’m a veteran ER doctor. I can’t believe what I’m seeing.
Dr. Kashif Pirzada has worked in ERs for 15 years and is witnessing the damage from overcrowding and understaffing. “Patients are extremely upset, and I would be too.”
Our current health-care disaster could have been averted
Justin Ling: All the promises we heard over two years about strengthening the health-care system turned to sand. Now health care workers and Canadians are paying the price.
Omicron is wreaking havoc in Canadian hospitals
Politics Insider for Jan. 7: Canada is in for a COVID slog; Erin O’Toole speaks up for the unvaccinated; and Jagmeet Singh’s new baby
Money won’t fix our health care
Jane Philpott: Politicians won’t move the needle on health care policy if they’re punished for it in the polls. Time to look elsewhere.
The push to fill Canada’s critical PSW shortage
New programs offering faster—and tuition-free—training are cropping up around the country. But are they enough?