Posts by Herb Dickieson
Urgent action overdue on physician access crisis
The departure of three Charlottetown doctors from their practices highlights the ongoing, and growing, physician access crisis on Prince Edward Island, adding thousands more Islanders to the officially recognized 23,000 names on the patient registry list (Doctors leaving practice, June 14). All Islanders are hurting, even the fortunate ones who have family doctors, due to…
Read MoreFinally, an Ombudsperson for Islanders, we hope.
The Ombudsperson Act was first introduced to the Prince Edward Island Legislature on December 15, 1998, by the then Leader of the Third Party (Island New Democrats), and voted down by the majority Binns government on May 25, 1999. Although the bill acquired support from the Liberal Official Opposition of the day, they failed to…
Read MoreEducation: the way out of COVID-19
We’ve had a tough year in 2020, but thanks to sound advice from Dr. Heather Morrison, Chief Health Officer, as well as the co-operation and mutual support of Islanders, we have avoided the tragic health outcomes others have suffered. Nevertheless, whole industries have been compromised due to the COVID-19 Pandemic causing underemployment and job loss…
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