Change has been a fact of life since the first pharmacy opened its doors many centuries ago. And it’s a challenge pharmacists and pharmacist-owners will face for years to come.
Dr. Wequar Ahmad, a Calgary-based general practitioner, also breached a 2014 undertaking requiring a chaperone when seeing female patients. On at least 15 occasions, he noted the presence of a chaperone when in fact there was none.
The new regulations, which govern the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, will lower pharmaceutical industry profits by $2.9 billion over a decade, rather than the $8.8 billion anticipated previously.