'Drowning in patients': Alberta ER doctors concerned about resources heading into respiratory illness season

Alberta emergency room doctors are worried about a health-care system already stretched to its limits as the province heads into respiratory illness season. “We’re really feeling the crunch in the (emergency room) and it’s only the beginning of September, we haven’t even started respiratory season, which is only going to become worse,” said Dr. Shazma Mithani, an emergency doctor in Edmonton. Mithani says her waiting room is often packed with well over 50 people. &l