Medicine Hat emergency physician Paul Parks delivered the guest address and answered questions at Tuesday's event. "Refocusing is a word that really does get under my skin, because it's a euphemism for disintegrating," he told the crowd of the province's health-care changes.--NEWS PHOTO ZOE MASON

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More than a hundred people turned out to St. John’s Presbyterian Church on Tuesday to join the Friends of Medicare for a town hall event, “An Urgent Conversation: Public Health Care in Medicine Hat.”

Friends of Medicare has partnered with local emergency physician and public health advocate Dr. Paul Parks to tour the province with these town hall events to discuss sweeping changes to the health-care system.

The first event was hosted in Lethbridge on Sunday. The next

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