ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 3/6/2014
Back on track with Vanessa’s Law
Despite its flaws, Health Canada's Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act is a step forward. - 2/20/2014
Should pharmacy technicians seek injecting authority?
Despite being a new profession, techs should already be planning their next moves. - 2/18/2014
Time for an identity change
With techs and even nurses getting into dispensing, our role in this area is quickly fading. - 2/6/2014
Canadian medicare shouldn’t enable the anti-vaxxers
Need treatment for a vaccine-preventable disease? No problem, here's your hospital bill. - 1/30/2014
Barriers to Change Series Part 4: The Mental Model
It's not a “pharmacy culture” problem holding us back—it's our operating model. - 1/23/2014
Barriers to Change Series Part 3: A house divided
Events in recent years prove associations cannot effectively represent both pharmacists and pharmacies. - 1/16/2014
Barriers to Change Series Part 2: Would you like counselling with that?
If pharmacists are serious about being paid for their expertise and service, then it's time to do away with dispensing fees. - 1/9/2014
We need to abolish the dispensing fee
Instead of lobbying for higher dispensing fees, we need to move away from them altogether. - 1/9/2014
Barriers to Change Series Part 1: Reconsidering pharmacy ownership
Clinging to independent pharmacy ownership may not be the best signal to the outside world that pharmacists are ready and serious about practice change. - 12/12/2013
Independent pharmacy may be running out of lives
Supreme Court decision supporting Ontario's ban on chains owning generic companies is the latest in a string of policy lifelines thrown to small pharmacy owners. But how much longer can independents fend of a U.S.-style collapse?