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Opinion: Alberta separation could dash gains in women’s health

As an Albertan born and raised, an epidemiologist, registered nurse and a women’s health researcher, I have spent my career working to improve health care in this province. I understand the frustration many Albertans feel with long waits, difficulty finding a primary care provider and a system that too often seems unable to translate research into care.

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But separation would not solve these problems. It would introduce years of uncertainty into an already strained health system and threaten some of the most important, and still-fragile, advances we have made in women’s health.

For generations, women were excluded from........

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