2026-01-21 from cbc.ca

Alberta emergency room doctors have counted what they say are six potentially preventable deaths and numerous close calls for patients who they say waited too long for care in emergency rooms across the province.

Dr. Paul Parks, a Medicine Hat ER physician and past president of the Alberta Medical Association (AMA), says he and his emergency medicine colleagues compiled the list of cases that they say occurred over a two-week period in late December and early January.

CBC News obtained the document listing the cases from multiple sources. Parks confirmed it was authentic and said he had sent it to provincial government and health officials on Jan. 11 in a bid to get more help for the stressed system. Parks did not provide the document to CBC News.

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