Doctors Call For Plan To Curb Physician Shortage

The Montréal radiologist says Canada is in desperate need of other types of health care workers as well, such as administrators and medical technicians. The lack of staff at the Université de Montréal Hospital Centre, where she works, means she sometimes has to handle her own administrative duties, such as rescheduling patients' magnetic resonance imaging exams. The lack of technicians, she says, results in magnetic resonance imaging machines sitting idle at night while patients wait months for tests. ... http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/4/384?etoc

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