Rural doctors from across Canada are in Banff this weekend discussing disasters — and two recent examples in Alberta are on the agenda.
The Rural and Remote Medicine Course is run by the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada. It gives rural doctors the chance to come together and share their stories of professional and personal challenges, including the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire and 2013 southern Alberta floods.
“We entered the hospital and there was thick smoke that was just descending all the way from the ceiling down and it was so black that you could taste it in your mouth,” said Dr. Alim Nagji, who was finishing his medical residency in Slave Lake, Alta., when the massive wildfire burned through the town.
More Rural doctors learn from Alberta disasters at Banff course – Calgary – CBC News.
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