Unpublished Newswire

More people in Canada who land in an emergency room with symptoms like belly pain or unexplained weight loss are being told “this may be cancer” — and sent home without knowing how long they’ll be waiting to get the follow-up care they need, a new study suggests. The study of Ontario emergency doctors’ experiences managing people with suspected cancer paints a grim picture of how emergency staff are left “holding the bag” for what many described as a health system in crisis, and the “gut punch” patients feel when told “I don’t know when you’re going to be seen.” Researchers have...