B.C. Health Minister Mike de Jong says he’s dead serious about introducing nurse anesthetists into the B.C. health care system. He’s not just using it as a political strong-arm tactic in the heated, ongoing dispute with anesthesiologists.
“This is a matter which has engaged my attention for many months now,” de Jong told me in an interview, “and I will tell you candidly that, confronted by the threat of withdrawal by anesthesiologists, combined with the
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