APP employs fewer doctors in its ERs as one of its cost-saving initiatives to increase earnings, according to a confidential company document obtained by KHN and NPR.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/feb/13/doctors-are-disappearing-from-emergency-rooms-as-hospitals-look-to-cut-costs/

Ingelmo said there are around 6,000 children in Montreal and Laval who suffer from chronic pain and that the majority of them wind up in hospital ERs where physicians don't necessarily know how to treat their complex issues aside from prescribing drugs.

Source: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/new-study-defines-chronic-pain-in-children-suggests-better-treatment-1.6404420

Once the threat is neutralized, then our teams go inside alongside P.D., and we try to find individuals that we can pull out and begin lifesaving measures and also transport them to our local ERs…for more advanced medical treatment.

Source: https://www.1310kfka.com/abc-news/u-s-news/03/nashville-fire-chief-reflects-on-first-responders-actions-on-covenant-school-shooting/

The province says it never issued an order requiring paramedics to off-load their patients at ERs within 45 minutes regardless of the capacity of medical staff.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/paramedic-turnaround-time-in-leaked-email-is-a-target-not-a-mandate-ahs-says-1.6770135?cmp=rss

The public now has seven days to weigh in online with the CPSBC and if approved, physician assistants could work in ERs under the direction of physicians.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9990777/relief-south-okanagan-er-closure/

We’ve got ERs that are shutting down, hospitals that are a mess … I think it is incompetent not to hire these people back and put them to work.”

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/10082827/calls-fire-bonnie-henry-vaccine-mandate-bc/