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Billing number system may soon end, says N.B. health minister

Provincial health minister Mike Murphy says the days of N.B.'s much reviled billing-number quota system may soon come to an end.
Edmonton psychiatrist is nominee for AMA president-elect
Ontario MD charged in sexual assault
Ah, to be a salaried MD - with a pension - during a downturn

Wheeling her three-quarter-tonne Suburban down the gravel road of her Ladner, B.C. farm where Dr. Janet Friesen keeps horses, the dreariness of the typical West Coast winter was matched in bleakness by the economic news on the radio.
Survey: Doctors happier with their professional life and with the OMA

Results of a new Ontario Medical Association membership survey will hearten the group's senior staff and elected officials and disappoint its critics.
FEE RELATIVITY: How N.B. is trying to correct fee disparities

New Brunswick is also a spot where attempts are being made to correct some of the most egregious fee disparities.
PRACTICE NOTES: Who did what, now?

I had an Abbott and Costello moment in my office recently.
N.S. Liberals promise 'free' med school tuition

Medical Post doctor pension campaign: E-mail federal health minister June 15