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Manitoba wants 150 new family doctors for the province, and recruitment specialists to find them

Shared Health is looking for outside help to address the severe physician shortage in Manitoba. The organization that co-ordinates health care in Manitoba is seeking as many as three external firms to recruit an additional 150 family physicians to the province: up to 50 each in Winnipeg; the northern health region and Churchill; and the rest of rural Manitoba. “Evolving population health needs, systemic issues, changes in how new medical graduates want to practice, and an increasing proportion of the physician workforce approaching retirement have all contributed to a need to increase the number of family physicians practicing in Manitoba,”…
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Florida’s new abortion ban isn’t a horror story. It’s a death sentence

“So what are some of the horror stories you’ve seen?” After more than 20 years as an abortion care physician, this is a question I’m used to being asked. And I will be hearing that question more than ever now that Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a move that puts reproductive rights in this state under one of the greatest attacks we have ever experienced. Suffering is not a ‘story’ When people ask me about some of the “horror stories” I’ve seen, they are usually well-meaning. It’s a clunky question that…
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Supreme Court declines to hear BC doctors’ fight to let patients pick private health care

Dr. Brian Day, Medical Director of the Cambie Surgery Centre, in his Vancouver office. Dr. Day launched legal action in 2009, challenging medicare laws that prohibit patients from paying for faster access to medically necessary care.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press A British Columbia-based physician who has spent more than a decade challenging medicare laws that prohibit patients from paying for faster access to medically necessary care has lost his fight, after the Supreme Court of Canada declined his last chance at appeal. Thursday’s decision upholds those laws and closes the door on a 14-year legal battle that pitted patient autonomy against…