C anadian physicians should warn their thousands of patients who migrate to Florida and
other points south each year that this is going to be an expensive year for snowbirds and the …

Aproposed freeze on the number of physicians prac-tising in Alberta hasan-gered new
doctorswho had hoped to practise there. On May 28, the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) …

A dministrators must look back wistfully to the days when Canadian hospitals, funded by
provincial governments that still believed in blank-cheque universal health care, could …

Although the Canadian health care system has many critics and faces many problems, the
president of the Alberta Medical Association says it also provides something that many …

We cannot stress how important buying travel insurance is. If you would like preexisting
medical conditions covered, you must purchase the insurance within 14 days of signing up …

Although Humana Inc. paints a bright picture of the job oppor-tunities for Canadian doctors
that exist south of theborder, the executive director of the College of Family Physicians of …

T he next time Winston Musgrave wants to travel with his wife when she goes to Halifax for a
medical appoint-ment, he will ask her doctor in their home town of Sydney, NS, for a …

W hen Dr. Martin Barkin came to Ottawa to address a recent joint meeting of three CMA
councils, he came with a lotof questions." Why is it that a patient can visit one centre in small …

Provincial health insurance plans have reduced their coverage of out-of-country costs for
inpatient and outpatient care. Recently the Ontario Ministry ofHealth announced that the …

In my third and fourth years of medical school at Duke University, I was totally engaged in
learning clinical strategies and algorithms: when to admit a patient with chest pain from the …