I reply the last thing to go is my ability to do my job. It is early Saturday on a holiday weekend, and already someone wishes to speak with me. When I was a new medical student with new responsibility, I would will my pager to ring despite the panic that occurred when it did. Today, I reflexively silence it with my right hand before it even hits its second shrill note. I park and walk inside the hospital.
Artificial light fluoresces everything into hospital time.
My pager goes off again. Patients of disgraced psychiatrist Raymond Leibl think so highly of him they have hired a lawyer to try to save his medical licence. But their groundswell of support may be too late to persuade a disciplinary hearing of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons to let him keep his licence to practice in Ontario. Manitoba kept more doctors than it lost for a third straight year. A report by the College of Physicians and Surgeons says that Manitoba has had a net gain of 58 doctors in three years, reversing a trend of losses in the 1990s.