Emergency Medicine

The nurse-ratio numbers come as the government announced earlier this week about 248,000 people have connected with a family doctor or nurse practitioner through the province’s Health Connect online registry.

‘People don’t get sick exclusively during business hours.’

Grant Jordan was driving to a friend’s house on Aug. 31 when he started feeling tightness in his chest.

British Columbia politicians are celebrating connecting more people with family doctors, but it comes as emergency room physicians at Surrey Memorial Hospital say conditions there continue to crumble.

With over 16,000 reported cases of physical and verbal assaults nationwide in 2023 alone, Italian doctors and nurses have called for drastic measures.

Justin Bates, CEO of the Ontario Pharmacists Association said the way some doctors have been reacting to expanded scope is ‘almost like hysteria.’

Premier David Eby said involuntary help would be aimed at people struggling with overlapping addictions, mental illness and brain injury concerns who are not able to ask for help for themselves.

A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver’s Chinatown last year says the man accused of the crimes had been let out of a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year prior without incident.