President's Letter
Dear Members,
Last night the AMA hosted a virtual patient town hall about health care with Ms. Danielle Smith and Ms. Rachel Notley. A recording of the town hall is now available for viewing. More than 2,200 patients joined the virtual event on a long weekend Monday evening.
This event was by invitation only to the 48,000 members of our PatientsFirst.ca online community. Media were not invited. We received over 1,000 submissions from patients who had questions for the parties. It was hard to whittle the list down for a one-hour session. We hope to post a few patient videos in the days ahead covering questions that we weren’t able to address during the event.
This town hall was held to give interested patients the chance to hear directly from the parties. It was also to thank the loyal members of PatientsFirst.ca. Since 2020 they have shown so much support for physicians and the health care system, writing thousands of letters, taking surveys to help measure the care deficit and generally staying in touch and engaged. We are very grateful for them.
Sincere thanks to Ms. Notley and Ms. Smith for making this event part of the last week of their campaigns.
You are always welcome to share your thoughts with me. You can email me via president@albertadoctors.org. You can also comment on this letter on the AMA website.
Regards,
fred Rinaldi, MD, CCFP, FCFP, LLB, MBA, MPA(HSA), BCom
President, Alberta Medical Association
"Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You can not withstand the storm.' The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm.'"