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- 3/21/2022
Top tips to empower your pharmacy's staff
On the way to improving your bottom line, workplace experts, pharmacy owner/operators and others say employee empowerment increases productivity, improves integrity and customer service, provides for better inventory turns and control, and helps attract better employees. - 3/21/2022
Doctor describes what it's like to provide medical assistance in dying in new book
After more than 20 years delivering babies into the world, Dr. Stefanie Green decided to specialize in delivering suffering people out of it. - 3/21/2022
Ontario cardiologists opposed to agreement that excludes some phone services
The Ontario Association of Cardiologists is concerned about the virtual care framework in the new agreement because it would only allow specific consultation services to happen over video, not by phone. - 3/21/2022
The countdown is on! Top 10 reasons to attend Pharmacy U
Pharmacy U turns 10 this year! Canada's leading event for the pharmacy industry will be in-person once again, on April 2, 2022, at the International Centre. That in itself is cause to celebrate. - 3/21/2022
When will feds lift COVID-19 mandates? It's complicated, minister says
Conservative and NDP members of the House of Commons health committee hammered the minister with questions about a timeline, a benchmark, or a set of conditions that would trigger an end to vaccine requirements for travellers and federal employees. - 3/20/2022
COVID is not over—and it won’t ever be
Dr. Sohail Gandhi says the doctors in Ontario using #COVIDisnotover on Twitter and arguing for ongoing restrictions need to use a wider metric than looking at COVID numbers alone. - 3/19/2022
Case report: The girl without a rash
A clinical encounter that Dr. Robert Dickson found peculiar and satisfying. - 3/19/2022
Doctors’ contracts are about central planning, not incomes: Ontario’s PPSA
As inflation runs over 5%, Ontario's PPSA fee deal might be one of the worst offers doctors have ever seen, argues Dr. Shawn Whatley. - 3/19/2022
Rapid antigen tests to the rescue: The new world without COVID restrictions
Dr. Jonathan Davids and Melanie Smith of DriverCheck, a testing company, run down the details on effective use of rapid antigen tests. - 3/17/2022
Excluding virtual healthcare will do more harm
Ontario's Proposed Physician Services Agreement will drastically cut physician fees for virtual care provided to patients seeing a new doctor thus disadvantaging patients who don’t have an FP, argues Dr. Brett Belchetz, CEO of Maple.