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Mark Bishop was at St. Paul's Hospital receiving outpatient chemotherapy (Photo credit: Vancouver Sun)

A cancer patient who is receiving chemotherapy at St. Paul’s Hospital says there is an information gap when it comes to health authorities communicating with outpatients.

Mark Bishop, 57, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in January 2017. His treatment includes chemotherapy that requires six visits a month to the Medical Short Stay Unit at St. Paul’s, one of the hospitals operated by Providence Health Care.

Bishop made inquiries with Providence Health Care about measures being taken to protect outpatients with suppressed immune systems and was told provincial privacy laws prohibit them from contacting patients.

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