To be sure, as the colleges of physicians and surgeons will sternly tell you, doctors are only allowed to accept unsolicited gifts from patients that are ‘modest tokens of appreciation.’
Frustration and confusion: thanks to the unusual funding situation in Ontario for the new high-dose trivalent inactivated vaccine (TIV) for influenza, those two words aptly describe how some adults aged 65 and older feel when they go to their pharmacy to get their flu shot this year.
Starting on Nov. 1, physicians must follow new federal regulations to report requests for medical assistance in dying (MAiD). The regulations support a Health Canada monitoring program for how MAiD is working in Canada.
