A Fired Health Leader’s Open Letter Blasting Danielle Smith
The premier has conveniently forgotten that COVID “capsized” all of our lives, and sparked profound turmoil in all workplaces. We all experienced the sheer drudgery of COVID, while health-care providers of all vocations stood up and stood tall under the most challenging circumstances.
Sadly, the premier ignores the gruelling 30-month “best efforts” made by the AHS board, management, clinical leaders, staff and trainees for managing through the tragic COVID calamity. All deserve our respect and gratitude. However, the premier chooses instead to vilify those who are saving Albertans.
As a board member, I witnessed the extraordinary collective will of our health-care providers confronting the unimaginable COVID pandemic. Their tenacity represents a hallmark signature of all health-care vocations.
It is with scientific certainty that COVID will rear its ugly head again, and now a respiratory virus is currently causing distress and disruption. If the current premier persists in vocalizing false, conspiratorial and unfounded claims, she will be responsible for putting health-care providers and Albertans needlessly in harm’s way. Her loose and corrosive words appear to satisfy her need for bizarre musings that can and will ultimately impact people’s lives. People will die.
Now, the premier is taking her nonsense to a new level by inviting a former Trump advisor, who has been universally scorned for promoting medical quackery, to speak to her “health advisory group.” This is another sign of her noxious grudge against Alberta’s medical professionals. When will cabinet confront and challenge their premier’s misguided thinking? |[Read more](A Fired Health Leader’s Open Letter Blasting Danielle Smith | The Tyee https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/11/21/Letter-Blasting-Danielle-Smith/)|