Healthcare

Three strikes and you’re out! That was the New Year’s resolution for one Saskatoon clinic for patients who ghost on appointments.

The controversy has been the subject of inquiries by a government-appointed judge, the auditor general and the RCMP.

Provinces won’t start incurring penalties for non-compliance until April 2027. Critics and nurse practitioners say Ontario should not wait.

According to the lawsuit, the woman was admitted to the hospital for medical treatment and a formal discharge order was issued Oct. 6 after it was determined that she no longer needed acute care services.

Trial results suggest a ‘clear choice’ between apixaban and rivaroxaban when treating pul-monary embolism or deep vein thrombosis.

A good physician friend of mine said he was headed to Dallas to take the American College of Lifestyle Medicine exam—and it piqued my curiosity.

In a national investigation of gambling-related suicides in Canada supported by the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Reporting, Newfoundland and Labrador was one of only two provinces that provided no data.

Ontario began trying to create integrated electronic medical records for patients in the early 2000s, but in 2009 the then-Liberal health minister was forced to resign after the auditor general said the eHealth agency had spent $1 billion but had little to show for it.