Healthcare

Five clinical pearls: How to counsel patients about long-acting reversible contraception

Focus on your patient's needs and find the best fit for them.
Why pain seems worse at night

Why do patients feel the pain more intensely at night? What does science have to say about it?
Dear CFPC Board: Provide business training to family physician residents

Rather than expand family medicine residency to three years we should fix the residency program rather than simply extending it with an additional year of training, argues Dr. Sohail Gandhi.
Another pharmacy robbed at gunpoint

Police said two armed men entered the pharmacy in Waterloo, Ont., demanded merchandise and fled.
Outgoing CAPSI president looks ahead to her future . . . and the profession's

Inspired by her pharmacist mom, Christine Vaccaro has clear goals for her future pharmacy career.
Advertising minor ailments: B.C. Pharmacy Association releases posters for pharmacists

The posters highlight 15 common minor ailments and contraception prescribing services.
When more gets you most: These doctors say full integration of pharmacists into family health teams brings great advantages

According to doctors who participated in a Quebec pilot project, the value of pharmacists who work in family medicine groups is optimized when they work more hours and are fully integrated in the clinic.
Case report: Cellulitis or allergy?

A concerning insect bite on a patient at Dr. Robert Dickson's walk-in clinic requires some combination therapy.

Fire department called to assist dying patient in N.S. hospital with no doctor