ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

• 6/5/2016

  What your patients are reading – week of June 6, 2016

• 6/5/2016

  How to get prescription transfers

  Using incentives like discounting to entice patients to switch pharmacies is lazy and, frankly, dishonours the profession. Instead, take a value-added approach that employs clinical creativity.
• 6/5/2016

  Walk-in competition taking psychological toll on some family doctors

• 6/5/2016

  Statement: Ontario releases assisted dying guidance for healthcare providers

• 6/2/2016

  Ontario privacy commissioner orders health ministry to release physicians' names with their billings

  Toronto Star behind push to get Ontario doctors' names with billings exposed
• 6/2/2016

  The case for physician-assisted dying

  Discussed: Suicide as a rational act; the betrayed family member; the depressed person; and the capacity for a patient to change their mind
• 6/2/2016

  Quebec has longest emergency room wait times in western world: report

  Authorities lack leadership, will to tackle the problem says health comissioner.
• 6/2/2016

  Brivlera: new drug for partial-onset seizures in adults

  Third-generation antiepileptic drug is structurally similar to levetiracetam.
• 6/2/2016

  Prince's death adds to opioid overdose epidemic's grim toll

  Musician died from fentanyl overdose.
• 6/2/2016

  Low rates of immunization in Manitoba despite flu shots at pharmacies

  Greater access through drugstores hasn’t improved overall vaccination rate. But one expert expects that to change.