Medication Management

The children’s pain reliever shortage was an ideal opportunity for pharmacy leadership to step up with clear, rational, national messaging. Instead, once again, exhausted pharmacists—and the public—were left to jerry-rig their own solutions to a crisis.

Knowing his patient was a chain smoker, Montreal family physician Dr. Samir Habib should have talked to him immediately about his lung X-ray results, ruled the Collège des médecins du Québec. That conversation never happened.