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- 10/15/2018
Northern Manitoba heart patient who was not offered flight for medical check dies on 10-hour bus ride
Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation Chief Marcel Moody said cancer patients and other First Nations people are being forced to take long bus rides for medical help - 10/15/2018
What to know before investing in your practice
Thinking about growing and expanding? Whether you plan on borrowing money or using excess earnings, here’s what you should ask yourself first - 10/15/2018
Good grief: The situation for doctors has gone to the dogs
The situation for doctors has gone to the dogs. If you're at all concerned about the health of the medical profession in Canada, it would be hard to envision a more disheartening, yet simultaneously maddening week than the one that just passed. Ontario, as always, came up with another episode of its World Wrestling-quality drama, and more on that shortly. But for once the shenanigans in Ontario looked to have been upstaged, this time by a conference on physician health that took place in Toronto. - 10/14/2018
OMA proposes 'new approach' to address fee relativity
The OMA has proposed that each and every medical specialty be allowed to present directly to the arbitration board to argue for their own 'relativity allocation' - 10/14/2018
'First-of-its-kind' compounding facility opens in Ontario
The new facility opens to meet, what Fresenius Kabi is betting will be a growing need for centralized sterile compounding as new rules come into effect in January 2019 - 10/14/2018
Five things about what's legal and what's not in Canada's new pot law
Canada's new law legalizing recreational cannabis goes into force on Wednesday. Here are five things about what's legal and what's not under this historic piece of legislation. - 10/14/2018
Doctors to debate medical pot as more patients expected to ask for prescription
Doctors with opposing views on whether medical marijuana should be prescribed for various conditions agree on one thing: their profession is ill-prepared to deal with patients asking for a drug that lacks adequate clinical research. - 10/11/2018
441 Ontario MDs are ordering a disproportionate amount of unnecessary tests: study
Researchers found that physicians who ordered one unnecessary test were more likely to order others - 10/11/2018
Urology, neurology, ER and general surgery residents face greatest risk of burnout
Dermatology residents appear to be the least likely to burn out - 10/11/2018
OPA asks government committee for cannabis dispensing rights
Association says it's important for pharmacists to provide guidance, particularly for vulnerable citizens such as seniors and those with a medical condition - 10/11/2018
Where have all the mentors gone?
Younger MDs have infinite access to answers online, but can mentors offer answers that Dr. Google can't?