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New
Brunswick
Aspiring internist
goes AWOL
FREDERICTON —
Gilles Roy is embroiled in a dispute with the Canadian
Forces over his attempt to withdraw from his contract
to be a military physician for four years. Mr Roy, a
graduating University of Ottawa med student, has been
accepted into the Dalhousie-affiliated internal medicine
residency program in Saint John. If he succeeds in getting
the contract torn up, he'll add around $200,000 in debt
to the $65,000 he already owes. "I would rather be in
debt over my head and be able to pursue my interests,"
he told the Telegraph-Journal.
Nova
Scotia
Anti-sealing doctor
arrested
SYDNEY —
While aggressive conservationist Paul Watson has become
a household name in Canada, less well known is Dr Merryn
Redenbach, an Australian pediatrician from suburban
Melbourne who was also among the anti-sealing crew of
the Farley Mowat when it was seized by the RCMP last
month off the coast of the Nova Scotia for getting too
close to sealing vessels. "Working with tiny premature
babies and people with severe cognitive problems has
taught me that the ability to suffer pain and distress
aren't dependent on an IQ score," she wrote.
Civil
servant aims for his MD
HALIFAX —
Premier Rodney MacDonald's press secretary had bigger
dreams: Joe Gillis surprised everyone in April when
he announced his resignation in order to attend medical
school on the tiny Caribbean island of Saba. "I figure
he's worked with a lot of sick people already," Mr MacDonald
joked. "He must have been talking about the MLAs," retorted
the Halifax Chronicle Herald's Amy Smith, "not
the members of the Nova Scotia press gallery."
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Prince Edward Island
Radiologist's work
under review
CHARLOTTETOWN
— Atlantic Canada is facing yet another
major review of diagnostic imaging — one is already
underway in Newfoundland and Labrador — after the
PEI government announced in late April that a radiologist
was found to have an unacceptably high error rate of
12%, which is more than twice the provincial goal. The
province didn't name the doctor, but CBC News reported
it is Dr Karunamoy Das, who only arrived in PEI in December.
He has agreed to take a leave of absence from practice
during the review of around 5,700 images.
Newfoundland
Confidentiality
oath raises ire
ST JOHN'S —
The embattled health region at the centre of the ongoing
breast cancer scandal is facing a new controversy. Eastern
Health is asking staffers to sign an agreement not to
speak about the organization's business, but the province's
medical association has taken umbrage with the request,
saying it might impede public disclosure by doctors
of important problems.
The
North
TB outbreak "nearing
the end"
YELLOWKNIFE —
Last year's Yellowknife tuberculosis outbreak appears
to be under control, the government's chief medical
officer told the Northern News Service in April. "There's
still a lot of work going on treating people but there's
been no new cases," said Dr André Corriveau.
"It looks like we're nearing the end." The outbreak
began last March, spreading from a homeless person at
a shelter to 12 others in the city by November.
Compiled by Sam Solomon
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