Patient Lifestyle

Pharmacy technicians and assistants from coast to coast gathered recently at their respective regional conferences for education and entertainment. Here is a roundup of three of the fall events.

Awareness of the need to ask seniors about pain and the specialized tools available to doctors can help eliminate patients’ unnecessary suffering and improve their quality of life

Mini biography: After graduating from medical school in 1973, I practised family practice for 37 years and have finally retired to Bracebridge, Ont., and assist at surgery in Brantford, Ont. My busy practice kept me away from many of the pastimes I liked, but now I have time to fish. I delivered babies from 1976 to 1984, and after that only did office work. My hobby of scuba diving has taken me from Australia to Wakatobi to Borneo and to almost all the Caribbean islands. As long as it is warm, I will dive in it.

Canadian family physician use of emergency medical records (EMRs) continues to increase, with 56% now using EMRs, a new study suggests.

TORONTO | The Health Research Foundation has awarded its prestigious Medal of Honour to Dr. Charles Scriver and Arnold Steinberg for their outstanding contributions to health sciences and public health innovation during a ceremony held in Toronto Wednesday. The ceremony was co-hosted with Prix Galien Canada.

Nurse Manager Dionne Sinclair an award-winning body builder, a model, a registered nurse, the owner of two master’s degrees, a fitness instructor and a motivational speaker. But if she had her way back in 1976, she would have walked back to Jamaica to get away from the London, Ont. winter.

TORONTO | It has been nearly a year in the making, characterized by stalls, spats, cuts, threats, a Charter challenge and long silences. But the McGuinty government and the Ontario Medical Association announced they have tentatively agreed on a new Physician Services Agreement.