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More than one in ten people from the province are without a doctor. “Watching my prescription run out feels like watching a time bomb ticking down,” says Evelyn Hornbeck

Walter Reynolds was bludgeoned to death by a patient, shocking Canada’s medical community and prompting physicians to share their own dangerous brushes with abuse

Jillian Horton: We spend much of our lives tending to the aftermath of failed social policies, afraid to engage. This is our call to speak out.

Michelle Cohen: The noose incident in Alberta highlights a deep-rooted culture of discrimination the profession has never properly acknowledged

Opinion: A growing number of students are finding that the expense and effort of studying to be a doctor may be in vain because they are unable to secure a residency spot

The number of female doctors in Canada has climbed dramatically over the past nearly 50 years. Women have gone from accounting for just seven per cent of physicians in 1970 to more than 40 per cent today, according to recent numbers released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. How those numbers break down between family medicine…

But an Insights West survey finds most Canadians also don’t like doctors setting up as small businesses to pay lower taxes

Opinion: The ongoing debate over tax reform is driven by partisan and special interests—and is a missed opportunity for democratic engagement

Opinion: Doctors are howling over Bill Morneau’s proposed closing of tax loopholes—but few of them would actually be significantly affected

In 2013, most would-be doctors came from just six undergrad schools, even though they were the tougher, more competitive ones

The Conservatives’ response is dead on arrival

Aging population means jobs in nursing, medicine and more