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- 9/6/2011
Seize chance to change health care: Dr. John Haggie
In an inaugural address full of hope, incoming president Dr. John Haggie movingly melded his personal experience coming from the U.K. as an international medical graduate decades ago with his deep love today for his adopted country, and his aim to improve the medical system. A former Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association president, he said, “Old presidents never die, they simply find another forum to keep asking ‘Why?’ So here I am.” - 9/6/2011
Seize chance to change health care: Dr. Jeff Turnbull
The regard the nation’s doctors have for the job Dr. Jeff Turnbull did as president over this past year was clear. After he finished his valedictory speech, delegates to the meeting gave him a sustained standing ovation while male board members on the dais twirled their ties in the air—a mirthful salute to Dr. Turnbull’s notorious hatred for neckwear. - 9/6/2011
Roadmap to national pharmacare sketched
Economist says increasing revenues for services is an unavoidable element of 2014 Health Accord talks - 9/6/2011
Review probes medical tourism hype
- 9/6/2011
Quebec MDs OK with wider pharmacist powers: survey
Concerns persist over possible drug sales conflict of interest and patient diagnoses - 9/6/2011
Que. trainees boycott over pay, 24-hour shifts
Residents’ federation considers protests if current tactics fail - 9/6/2011
Push to limit visa students approved
Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) president Noura Hassan said the March decision by the Dalhousie University medical school to sell 10 medical school spots to qualified students from Saudi Arabia was just plain wrong. - 9/6/2011
Naturopaths taking uneasy seat at patient-care table
Has the medical profession been too generous in accommodating alternative treatments? - 9/6/2011
N.S. doctors bemoan midwife service woes
MDs argue province’s popular but troubled midwifery program is worth saving - 9/6/2011
More U.S. MDs working in hospitals
Stagnant MD pay rates, rising private practice costs to blame - 9/6/2011
Medical faculty is ready for its sophomore year
Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick gets overwhelming support from community and local MDs - 9/6/2011
Hospital MDs miffed at loss of board vote
Medical staff uncertain over their duties and liabilities in wake of change to Ontario regulations