The province is on a roll in attracting new doctors. That, according to Horizon Health Network Vice-President Dr. Edouard Hendriks in a report to the Board of Directors who met in the city last night. Dr. Hendriks says any fears about the wage dispute last year between the provincial government and Medical Society putting a damper on recruitment have proven to be unfounded.
Dr. Hendriks says they're looking to recruit up to 38 doctors provincewide, 14 of which would be newly created positions. In the past four years, 21 new doctors have come to the Saint John region, 14 of them being specialists. He also reports the well publicised staffing shortages in the Emergency Department have pretty much been cleared up.
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