Canadians are dying preventable deaths in this country's choked ERs, doctors warn

Dr. Alecs Chochinov recently received a private message from an emergency medicine colleague who has been practising for more than a decade. “I’ve never been so despondent,” it said.

“That single doctor is speaking for many,” Chochinov said. “People are despondent. They’re scared that there are going to be bad outcomes and they’re going to feel responsible. But they don’t see any respite.”

In a new commentary, Chochinov and his co-authors warn needless, avoidable deaths are recurring “with unsettling regularity...