Patient-First Language

FPs face growing pressure as 80% of Canadians turn to them for mental healthcare—but how are they equipped to handle today’s demand?

Mackenzie Health’s ‘zero harm’ plan appears to have dramatically reduced several problems.

New Canadian guidelines on opioid prescribing are out and Dr. Angela Mailis summarizes (and praises) these updates.

Since early September, a new U.S. rule requires mammography centers to inform women about their breast density.

Across years of experience practising pharmacy, a pharmacist may go through a natural incline in ego during a steep initial learning phase, followed by a plateau. Here pharmacists have seen many of the more intense challenges already and the number of new headaches flattens out. Finally, towards approximately the last third of the pharmacists’ career, they begin feeling less driven by ego and let the problems around them simmer or settle.

If we're too focused on technical dispensing functions at the expense of supporting patient health, let's change it.

The art of ending a doctor-patient relationship (more advice to early career colleagues) from Dr. Eric Cadesky.

Over the years, it has become increasingly obvious to me that the heart of so many of our struggles as pharmacists comes from a lack of good leadership skills. This is not surprising. There was minimal emphasis on leadership skills during my formal education.