Memo suggests ER doctors calling in sick at 2 Vancouver hospitals pay out of pocket to get shifts covered
An internal memo to emergency department staff at two Vancouver hospitals has suggested that doctors calling in sick pay half of the financial incentive in place to encourage others...
Hospitals and doctors are fed up with Medicare Advantage
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSaveGood morning. I’m Julie Appleby, a senior correspondent for KFF Health News who writes about health insurance, price...
Vancouver Island doctor’s organization improving healthcare in Ghana
The face of healthcare delivery in northern Ghana has changed thanks to the efforts of a Qualicum Beach doctor and the non-profit organization she founded...
Perspective: From Hospital to Hospitality — Spin Doctors Brand Getting Sick as an Adventure. It’s Not.
On these journeys, you don't get to go anywhere — except maybe the hospital or doctor's office. This opinion piece was published on Wednesday, November...
Doctors in the U.S. Can’t Be Silent About Gaza
On October 31, Dr. Hammam Alloh was the last nephrologist at Al-Shifa Hospital and the last nephrologist in Gaza. When asked by a journalist why...
In Gaza, doctors are among the many dead. Here are some of their stories : NPR
A wounded Palestinian boy arrives to the emergency room of the Al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 17....
State attorney general, doctors and nurses criticize HCA over patient care at North Carolina’s Mission Hospital
Four years after it bought Mission Hospital, an 815-bed facility in Asheville, North Carolina, HCA Healthcare is under fire in the region, threatened with a...
French doctors vow to ‘disobey’ bill stripping undocumented migrants of healthcare rights
A push by France’s conservative-led Senate to strip undocumented migrants of their access to free healthcare has sparked a public outcry among workers across the...
Doctors in Gaza Respond to Israeli Doctors Who Endorsed Bombing of Hospitals
Physicians who have been working for four weeks to save as many lives as possible from Israel's "complete siege" of Gaza, even as the healthcare...
Alberta doctors ‘trepidatious’ about changes to already fragile health-care system
The new president of the Alberta Medical Association says doctors are apprehensive about expected changes to the province's health-care delivery system as they deal with...