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Health Minister Tyler Shandro. Image credit: Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta via Alberta Newsroom/Flickr
Alberta continues war on doctors as world marks anniversary of pandemic
David J. Climenhaga | It remains to be seen if Alberta's doctors themselves will surrender, since a ratification vote must still be conducted. It seems likely, though, that they will give up and ratify.
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A doctor participating in a protest calling for a faster response to the spread of COVID-19 in the homeless shelter system. Image: michael_swan/Flickr
Coronavirus has U.S. physicians eyeing politics -- will COVID-19 and the UCP's war on doctors spur the same thing here?
David J. Climenhaga | Jason Kenney's UCP has chosen the pandemic as an opportunity for an assault on physician pay and an ugly attack on the Alberta Medical Association.
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A Telus store in Edmonton. Image: Mack Male/Flickr
The new two-tier medicine: physicians for the rich, an app for the rest of us?
David J. Climenhaga | Could a new app being promoted as a COVID-19 health-care solution replace primary physician care down the line?
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Alberta Medical Association President Dr. Christine Molnar
Talks between Alberta government and doctors back on after three week hiatus
David J. Climenhaga | A big fight with Alberta's doctors might have seemed like a good idea to the United Conservative Party a few weeks ago. But that was then. This is now.
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Doctors' capitalist ethos and the fight for a fairer tax code
Yves Engler | While nurses defend public health care, doctors have long promoted a capitalist model of medicine that maximizes their wealth and power.
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Trade deals are bad medicine: Patents, profits and payola physicians
Michael Butler | Big Pharma influences what doctors prescribe -- a practice that needs to change.
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Canadian doctors divest from fossil fuels
Jesse McLaren | The Canadian Medical Association has voted to divest, calling attention to climate health and urging climate action
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Health care's complicated relationship with technology
Wayne MacPhail | Here's a quick, amateur medical diagnosis: the health-care system is ailing when it comes to technology.
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Christian doctors angry they can no longer abandon their patients
Joyce Arthur | A Christian doctors' group is throwing a tantrum over a new requirement that Ontario physicians must refer patients appropriately when they refuse to provide a health-care service.
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Doctors do not have the right to discriminate and deny basic health care
Joyce Arthur | When doctors refuse to provide reproductive health-care services based on personal beliefs, most people call it "conscientious objection." In reality, it is the opposite of conscientious.
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Anti-poverty movement, meet the culture of medicine
Vanessa Brcic | Many voices are calling for attention to poverty reduction and a living wage. But what happens when you add doctors into this conversation? Progress and challenges both.
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Canadian doctors launch court challenge of cuts to refugee health care
Redeye Collective | Last June, the federal government drastically cut health-care coverage for refugee claimants in Canada. Since then doctors have been unable to help hundreds of patients with treatable conditions.