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Petition calls to keep health library open, accessible to doctors in B.C.

Worry for rural, remote doctors who rely on college’s online and physical library
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A doctor wears a stethoscope around his neck as he tends to patients in his office in Illinois, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jeff Roberson

Amanda Ross-White isn’t surprised by the upcoming closure of one of Canada’s oldest health libraries, but it’s the impact on rural and remote doctors that has her concerned.

Ross-White is the vice-president of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, which is the national organization for medical librarians, and she said she was made aware the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C.

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Lauren Collins

About the Author: Lauren Collins

I'm a provincial reporter for Black Press Media's national team, after my journalism career took me across B.C. since I was 19 years old.
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