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- 7/21/2020
Hoax call diverted resources during struggle to adapt to COVID-19: care home
A long-term care home in North Vancouver that was the site of Canada's first confirmed COVID-19 death says it received a hoax call as the outbreak began that created "needless fear'' and compromised health and safety. The Lynn Valley Care Centre was also the location of the country's first known outbreak on March 6. It would become one of British Columbia's deadliest, killing 20 residents among the total 76 residents and staff infected. - 7/21/2020
Ford defends controversial emergency order law despite legislator's removal from caucus
Premier Doug Ford is defending a controversial new law granting his government powers to extend emergency orders despite recent opposition from within his own party. Ford ejected a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus—legislator Belinda Karahalios—Tuesday after she voted against the bill. - 7/21/2020
An open letter to Alberta ophthalmologists
'If you take this step, and fail to learn from the lessons in Ontario, you will be worse off than before' - 7/21/2020
How new physicians can overcome the financial pinch from exam delays
Residents in their final year had prepared to write their certification exams[1] this spring. Then the pandemic struck. Now, with exams delayed until at least the fall, recent resident graduates are having to make some changes. In addition to having to adjust for the new exam timing and all that goes along with that, many are dealing with financial impacts as well. - 7/21/2020
More COVID-19 deaths at for profit nursing homes in Ontario: study
For-profit status of LTC homes was associated with about a two-fold increase in the number of cases - 7/20/2020
Alberta eye doctors ask to bypass AMA, negotiate directly with government
Suggest a change in legislation so they can opt out of AMA - 7/20/2020
Ontario hospital union holds five minute protest to fight emergency orders
Front-line staff in Ontario hospitals held a five-minute, in-hospital protest on Tuesday as their union continues its fight against the proposed extension of the province's emergency orders. The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, a division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, said it does not want the province's emergency order extended in its current form because their collective bargaining agreement would be suspended. - 7/20/2020
Families and the pandemic
- 7/20/2020
Patients must be connected to doctors who know them best
During COVID-19, most doctors have set up virtual offerings for patients so we need to double down on our efforts to ensure continuity of care - 7/20/2020
N.S. health authority successfully recruiting IMGs despite pandemic
Katrina Philopoulos, the Nova Scotia Health Authority's director of physician recruitment, told the CBC the pandemic has caused delays bringing new doctors to the province. Indeed, in April the CBC reported that 13 doctors from the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States that were due to start working in the province were held up at the border due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. But Philopoulos said since then four IMGs have been allowed in.