Doctors who don’t like being mistreated are leaving the province. We need more that don’t care about how they’re treated or paid.
Locked in a dispute that has already led to some of its physicians leaving the province, the government of Alberta has posted nearly 200 job openings for doctors on a website that caters to international applicants.
The 179 postings on international job board medical.careers.global include ads for everything from generational practitioners in Crowsnest Pass, Alta., to spine surgeons in Edmonton. The surge of new postings, which multiple Alberta physicians described as highly unusual, came over the past two weeks as tensions between the province and doctors continue to escalate over a months-long row that began when the government terminated its master agreement with physicians and imposed changes to their pay formula.
