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- 4/4/2011
Banker should not review healthcare: Ontario unions
The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), which represents 35,000 hospital staff across Ontario, objects to the appointment of former TD Bank executive Don Drummond as chair of the newly created Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services, a position that will see him reviewing heathcare. - 4/4/2011
Will fee deal head up AMA-premier chat this week?
Recently signed ‘agreement in principle’ has been formally endorsed, but master agreement yet to be hammered out - 4/3/2011
What happened to predicted MD retirement crunch?
Individual desire, length-of-service bonuses among the factors keeping doctors at work - 4/3/2011
We need new ideas for hospice care
The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association has made two important observations: the demand for hospice care is set to increase in the decades to come; and there is increasing demand for high quality palliative care in remote areas of Canada. - 4/3/2011
Two MDs named to Alberta superboard
- 4/3/2011
The depths to which medicine digs
- 4/3/2011
OMA’s ‘affiliate’ pension plan gains association allies
Groups representing pharmacists, architects and land surveyors send letters of support - 4/3/2011
Family health groups boost GPs’ productivity
But authors of Ont. study caution that effects of primary-care model on patient outcomes were not assessed - 4/3/2011
Dalhousie ‘buddies’ welcome med school newcomers
Dalhousie University’s medical school is rolling out the welcome mat, launching an “ambassador” program for arriving medical students, residents and fellows. - 4/3/2011
Convalescent plasma reduces mortality in severe swine flu cases
Patients with severe pandemic H1N1 influenza who were treated with a single 500-ml dose of convalescent plasma had a significantly lower risk of dying, according to findings from a study here.