Minister says Alberta emergency room deaths and poor outcomes are exceptions to the norm

Minister says Alberta emergency room deaths and poor outcomes are exceptions to the norm

As Alberta doctors raise red flags about seeing what they say are delays in emergency room care, the province’s hospitals minister says he doesn’t think cases that the doctors have recently highlighted reflect the health system broadly.

Doctors count 6 preventable deaths in Alberta EDs

EDMONTON – Alberta emergency room doctors have counted what they say are six potentially preventable deaths and dozens of close calls for patients who they say waited too long for care in emergency rooms across the province. Dr. Paul Parks (pictured), a Medicine Hat ER physician and past president of the Alberta Medical Association (AMA), says he and his emergency medicine colleagues compiled the list of cases that they say occurred over a two-w…