I can still remember my first day. I remember that our first home visit had to be cancelled because the patient had died the night before and that our second visit took place in the patient’s backyard, drinking lemonade.
Family doctors, including the president of the Alberta Medical Association, said they have seen no relief in their own practices and in the healthcare system more broadly since the province launched its Healthcare Action Plan.
The Supreme Court is facing a self-imposed Friday night deadline to decide whether women’s access to a widely used abortion pill will stay unchanged or be restricted while a legal challenge to its Food and Drug Administration approval goes on.
The Medical Council of Canada now has funding to create a National Registry of Physicians, which could be an integral tool as discussions about the need for physician mobility get louder.
Association president Dr. Alika Lafontaine says big investments do seem to have made a difference, but progress backslid when parties stopped working together.
Prescribers who co-sign, counter-sign or rewrite a semaglutide prescription for patients they haven’t seen or assessed would be considered in breach of professional standards, say two provincial regulators.
We are medical anthropologists who have researched social and cultural dimensions of medical education. As teachers, we have worked with thousands of undergraduate pre-meds.
A Saskatchewan doctor has been charged with unprofessional conduct after allegedly sending a fax to a pharmacy that disparaged homeless people and cancelled a patient’s prescription to punish the pharmacy for serving a local homeless encampment.
