Top doc cries out for more staff

Dr. Jane Bishop, president of the Sunshine Coast Medical Society (SCMS), has gone on record this week stating there is a crisis at St.

Dr. Jane Bishop, president of the Sunshine Coast Medical Society (SCMS), has gone on record this week stating there is a crisis at St. Mary's Hospital and that the medical staff will be releasing themselves of all perceived obligations to the emergency room (ER) unless something is done soon.

On Jan. 31 Bishop sent an urgent letter to Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and copied to Coast Reporter this week on page A11, stating:

"This is to give notice that the St. Mary's medical staff will likely be unavailable to staff the emergency room on a full-time basis as we have in the past we need a significant inflow of new family practitioners or ER physicians. We look to VCH for immediate action."

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