Provincial changes to physician compensation will cost patients: doctor

Dr. Don Wilson worries about the cost of health care, but he disagrees with the province's approach to savings. "The problem with what the government is doing is it's attacking primary care," Wilson told CTV News Edmonton. Family doctors like himself often treat seniors with pulmonary, cardiac and memory issues. "They can't get seen in 15 minutes. They need that extra time." How doctors are paid for that extra time is at the crux of a plan being imposed by the province after talks with the Alber