Dr. Jean-René Pierre, who retired from practice in December 2021, was also the family physician for the patient’s mother and former spouse, according to the Collège des médecins du Québec.
Linda Silas, president of the 200,000-member Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, said funding must be used to ease critical shortages across hospitals and nursing homes in order to have any real impact.
The meeting was a chance to introduce the IPPC and discuss Indigenous representation in pharmacy, strategies to improve Indigenous health, and anti-Indigenous racism in pharmacy.