With COVID on the job: France allows infected medics to workIt is a calculated risk, with the possibility that COVID-positive health workers and carers could infect colleagues and patients weighed against what the government says is a need to keep essential services running. Bringing surgeons to patients: Check out this Ontario hospital's surgeon of the week program Disgraced pharmacist on the hook for $300,000 in costs and fine loses bid to sue medical lab for $273,000 Pierre Rizk “was a maverick whose only goal was to prescribe drugs" concluded the Alberta College of Pharmacy, and he abused the prescribing privileges of the province's pharmacists. Practising yoga for physicians Dr. Melanie Bechard, an emergency pediatric specialist, shares her story about how yoga changed the way that she lives her life as a doctor. A-TAPER: a new framework for de-prescribing of medications in older adults Assess medication use, Talk about risks versus benefits, select Alternatives, Plan next steps, Engage patient and Reduce dose. Quebec expands booster shot program by opening appointments to those 55 and up All adults aged 18 and over will be able to book an appointment to receive their third COVID-19 vaccine shot before the end of January. Can medicine survive modern society? Medicine needs three things to survive, argues Dr. Shawn Whatley: civility, logic and free speech. Things I learned in 2021 As the pandemic drags on into its third (!!!) year, here are a few lessons learned that have helped me to not just cope, but thrive Nova Scotia pharmacists report requests to make false vaccine records Overworked pharmacy staff in Nova Scotia have been pressured to create false vaccination records for customers. Provinces announce new measures as Omicron fuels rise in COVID cases, hospitalization First Previous 1137 1138 1139 1140 1141 Next Last
