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A cross-party doctors’ rebellion is shaping up as Alberta’s election year nears. Emergency Ward Doctor Raj Sherman says health care chaos could defeat Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP. “Premier Smith is failing miserably on health care and I think this could lose her the election,” Sherman told me in an interview. Sherman sent out a blistering tweet to decision-makers Tuesday. “Patients can’t leave hospital,” he wrote. “Admitted patients can’t leave the ER. Ambulances can’t offload. Waiting rooms fill up. Care gets delayed. People suffer and tragically some die.” That’s the whole endless crisis in a nutshell. Sherman has been fighting to fix it for more than 25 years. But now, he says: “This the worse — absolutely the worst we have ever seen.” It's along read...grab a coffee and if you agree, please retweet...your life depends on it.Alberta's ER Crisis Is Far From Over. Stop Celebrating Crisis Protocols as Success.Premier @ABDanielleSmith 's government is celebrating the return of Triage Liaison Physicians (TLPs)…— Dr. Raj Sherman (@RajSherman) November 10, 2026 He’s a longtime emergency physician in Edmonton hospitals who has also been deeply involved in past government efforts to improve the system. Sherman is glad to support Dr. Paul Parks, the Medicine Hat ER doctor who’s fiercely critical of the government, and now hopes to run for the NDP in Cypress-Medicine Hat. “I’m not a New Democrat, I’m not a socialist, but I say Paul’s a good man and I endorse him,” says Sherman. “I don’t care about his political membership.” Sherman himself has been almost everything but a New Democrat. He’s often looked like a gadfly but was always driven by a desire for better health care — and forever being disappointed. He was a Progressive Conservative MLA who became associate health minister, was kicked out of the PC caucus for publicly opposing health failings, then became Alberta Liberal leader in the legislature. He ran for Smith’s UCP in 2023, lost, but was appointed head…

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