The Alberta Medical Association says the province's high COVID-19 numbers are behind a desperate shortage of specialized staff to care for critical care patients.
Dr. Verna Yiu, president and CEO of Alberta Health Services, said hospitals have admitted two dozen or more critically ill COVID-19 patients on average each day since Sunday.
The key challenges to gender equity the respondents identified included that gendered expectations and biases can come from many sources in a physician's life from family to patients to colleagues.
Members of the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association's opioid poisoning committee have penned a letter to Premier Jason Kenney, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other health and addictions officials.
