Volunteer urges health authority to continue funding Marion Hospice beds
Vancouver Courier
A Marion Hospice volunteer is upset the 12 beds there will be transferred west to the St. John Hospice slated to open next fall at the University of BC. VCH spokesperson Anna Marie D’Angelo is quoted.
Are nurse practitioners the cure for BC’s family doctor shortage?
Globe and Mail
Nurse Practitioners require six years to earn their degrees. By the time they graduate, they are considered qualified to perform up to 80 per cent of the activities of a family doctor, including diagnoses, treatment, ordering lab tests, prescribing medication and admitting patients to hospitals, if necessary – all that on salaries of about $100,000 a year, financed by regional health authorities, far below the average income of doctors.