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The spring sitting of the P.E.I. Legislature came to a close on the five-year anniversary of the 2019 election that made Dennis King's Progressive Conservatives the first functional minority government in the province's history.
After advocating for the legislation, Dr. Kay Dingwell, an ER physician in Summerside, says she's not surprised PC MLAs voted down a bill Wednesday that would have eliminated the requirement for sick workers to get doctors' notes. But as she tells CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin, she hasn't given up on getting rid of the policy that she says puts an uneeded strain on the health-care system.
Patients hate having to ask for them. Doctors don't like writing them. And, increasingly, health-care providers are taking a stand against them.
Some Island doctors are pushing back against Health P.E.I.'s wait-time advisories for hospital emergency departments, saying they may be doing more harm than good.
One Canadian doctor on X has people talking after she called out employers for requesting employees get sick notes for time off.