Marjo Johne
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- 1/13/2022
Counselling the untested: 5 tips for helping patients who can't get a COVID test
Whether or not they have symptoms, there are a number of things your patients can do to care for themselves–and those around them–when they suspect they may have COVID but can't get a test to confirm it. - 1/13/2022
High price to pay: Pharmacist banned and hit with fines and college costs totalling $110,000
Owner of a Toronto pharmacy, filed more than $123,000 in fraudulent drug claims and disobeyed suspension and practice mentor requirement orders. - 1/12/2022
Déjà vu: After reinstatement in one province, doctor suspended over same case in another
Dr. Mohammed Sayeed, who practices in Lloydminster on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, must also pay the Alberta college a $5,000 fine plus hearing costs for the same sexual boundary violation complaint that got his licence revoked in 2018 in Saskatchewan. - 1/10/2022
Nurses probed over social media posts about COVID launch $1M libel suit against Canadian Nurses Association and B.C. news site
Kristen Nagle, Kristal Pitter and Sara Choujounian of Toronto had faced disciplinary action from the Ontario Nurses Association. Nagle was fired after she spoke at the January 6 rally in Washington, D.C. - 1/9/2022
Before and after: Plastic surgeon hit with $17,500 fine over misleading ads
Montreal practitioner Dr. Nabil Edward Fanous was also offside with his claim that a facelift technique he created could make patients look up to 13 years younger, according to the Collège des médecins du Québec. - 1/9/2022
Doctor suspended in Ontario after licence ban in New York, reprimand in Florida and North Carolina
“We are disturbed by your misconduct,” the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal told Dr. Ken Shafquat Intikhab Abrahim. - 1/6/2022
Lawsuit claims child's severe brain injury could have been avoided with C-section
Kari-Lyn Davies, who stands four feet eight inches, says doctors and nurses at Kelowna General Hospital should have known she was too small to give birth safely by vaginal delivery. - 1/6/2022
Too much, too soon: Doctor suspended for having sex with patient who asked him out
Calgary physician Dr. Regan Taylor could have had his licence suspended had his misconduct occurred after April 2019, when a new law brought in more significant and mandatary penalties for sexual abuse and sexual misconduct by healthcare professionals. - 1/4/2022
Disgraced pharmacist on the hook for $300,000 in costs and fine loses bid to sue medical lab for $273,000
Pierre Rizk “was a maverick whose only goal was to prescribe drugs" concluded the Alberta College of Pharmacy, and he abused the prescribing privileges of the province's pharmacists. - 12/30/2021
Testing symptomatic patients for COVID? If you're in Ontario here's what you need to know
Ontario's decision allow in-pharmacy COVID testing on symptomatic patients added another layer of complexity and risk for pharmacy teams. That's why it's important to know the latest college guidance. - 12/29/2021
Horrible boss? Former staff accuse U.S. doc of sexist insults and threats of 'making people disappear'
Dr. Ronald Bergman, a prominent plastic surgeon in Des Moines, Iowa, was also sued recently by a fellow plastic surgeon who accused him of hurling crude, misogynistic insults at her in front of patients and staff. - 12/29/2021
Not in it for the money: Most New Brunswick docs bill less than $500K a year
The province needs to stay competitive with other jurisdictions in the country and abroad, says the president of the New Brunswick Medical Society.
