Healthcare

I work as an advanced care paramedic in British Columbia. I’m proud of our work, but I’m increasingly concerned that debate over physician involvement in pre-hospital care has lost sight of its primary goal: improving patient outcomes.

Dr. Jabir Jassam argues our focus on entry points is failing patients—and that shifting from ‘encounters’ to ‘ownership’ can help the system.

The order of doctors is making 12 recommendations and notes that it will be essential to harmonize regulations and standards of practice among professionals where activities may overlap, particularly when it comes to prescriptions and monitoring test results and requests.

Flying under the radar in the current parliamentary session are two studies by Parliamentary Standing Committees, each with potentially serious implications for medical innovation, pandemic preparedness and access to medicines.

The family of a man charged with attempted murder in St. John's says he was beaten by police after he had sought help from a hospital for his mental illness, forever changing his relationship with authorities.

The workshop was delivered to 119 students in November and will reach 325 pharmacy students across Canada by July.

We don’t need more dashboards for executives. We need fewer clicks, open data, and AI that makes us better doctors, not faster typists, argues Dr. Darren Larsen. Final part of a 5-part series.

The unilateral expansion of parental access to youth medical records represents yet another erosion of professional trust, and another step in the progressive deterioration of trust within our province.