Compassion Fatigue

A few months ago, the hospital staff of Lac-Mégantic took part in an exercise code orange: an simulation involving a school bus accident. But overnight on July 6, the code orange was not a sham.

Pharmacists are known to go the extra mile to look after patients when a major crisis hits – and that’s exactly what happened in southern Alberta when extreme flooding forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes, knocked out electricity and caused severe damage to countless residences and businesses.

But limiting shift lengths could also create 'discontinuity of care'

It’s dispiriting when patients abandon proven medicine for the false promises of miracle cures

The search for an Alberta doctor who went missing on a swollen river near Fort McMurray has been called off.