Healthcare

Doctors Manitoba is reporting a record number of new doctors in the province this year, but adds that it is difficult to keep physicians from leaving.

In this season of lost souls and encroaching winter darkness, test your knowledge of the Grim Reaper and his works!

Released on Thursday, the CIHI numbers show that the number of family physicians per 100,000 people in Canada decreased to 119 in 2024. In 2023, the number was 120 and in 2022, it was 124.

Several important lessons were underscored by a visit for a simple spider bite.

Students at Quebec’s four medical schools have voted for an unlimited general strike mandate over a new provincial law that ties part of doctors’ remuneration to performance targets.

Meetings highlighted issues facing Canada’s radiologists and other medical imaging professionals.

Doctors in Quebec are up in arms over a recent provincial law that imposes a new payment system on physicians and prohibits them from using pressure tactics to oppose the policy. Here are five things to know about the ongoing battle between physicians and the provincial government.

Members were to vote Oct. 29 on CFPC plan to have dues go up automatically with inflation.