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May 12, 2023

Dr Gord McInnes, co-President of the Section of Emergency Medicine, and Mike Old of the Hospital Employees Union joined CBC's Dan Burritt to discuss the emergency room issues in British Columbia. “This is a long time coming and the ED should be seen as the canary in the coalmine, in the sense...

CTV News
May 11, 2023

The “near catastrophic" situation at Langley Memorial Hospital's emergency department, first reported by CTV News this week, is just one example of what BC doctors say is a provincial crisis. The “dire” and “unsafe” conditions in the Langley department were highlighted in...

May 8, 2023

Dr Davidicus Wong, a family physician in Burnaby, who is leading the walk, talks to CBC's Gloria Mackarenco about Doctors of BC's annual Walk With Your Doc event. According to Wong, simply walking can “make a huge difference”. Moderate physical activity, for 150 minutes a week can reduce the...

CTV News
May 5, 2023

Canada’s biggest testing and diagnostics company is offering “various diagnostic tests” for long COVID to British Columbians, even though the national health agency clearly states the condition isn’t detectible via testing. A section of the LifeLabs website titled “long COVID testing” suggests...

CBC News
April 12, 2023

WorkSafeBC is calling on employers to improve their violence-prevention strategies after new data revealed a 25-per-cent increase in workplace claims related to violence in the past five years.

"I have absolutely been physically hit, kicked or spit on over the course of my career," said ...