Alberta doctors raise alarm over inadequate internal medicine staffing

Alberta's doctors are calling a provincial shortage of general internal medicine (GIM) physicians an acute-care crisis and are asking the government for immediate help. Dr. Paul Parks, president of the Alberta Medical Association — an organization that represents the province's doctors — said to reporters on Monday there's an "escalating crisis" in the acute care system in which GIM doctors work, comparing it to "an aneurysm that just keeps growing and it's getting ready to burst."Th