The Physician Services Agreement, which came into effect last year, increases the financial incentive for doctors accepting patients from the province’s centralized waitlist from $350 to $500.
Canadian health-tech company’s deployable unit links remote physicians with on-site nurses or technicians, packing more than 400 diagnostic tools into a single connected space.
Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency room doctor in Edmonton, said he sometimes sees more than 100 people in the waiting room with 30 chairs, while others spill out into hallways or the ambulance bay.
A trial set to begin Monday in British Columbia’s Supreme Court questions whether publicly funded faith-based hospitals should be allowed to prevent patients from receiving medical assistance in dying in their facilities.
