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May 11, 2020

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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Mar 21, 2020

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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Mar 8, 2020

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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Sep 7, 2017

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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May 13, 2016

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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Aug 26, 2015

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

Columnists

Jul 1, 2015

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.

Columnists

Apr 3, 2015

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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Aug 5, 2014

'Conscientious objection' when it comes to reproductive health is not conscientious

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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Aug 1, 2014

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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