Update on tech regulationMost provinces at some stage in process of regulating pharmacy techs. Best seat in the housePharmacist Robert MacDonald had the best seat in the house to watch last year’s Grey Cup as part of chain crew. New Business: Providing injection services (a New Brunswick experience) Weighty Issues Do you have a bias against someone who is overweight? Nurses against pharmacists giving shots The Quebec Order of Nurses claims pharmacists should not have the right to vaccinate patients. Apathy replacing access as biggest health-care issue: CMA prez CMA/Maclean's 'Time to Rebuild Medicare' town hall calls for more focus on patient, more efficiencies, less resistance to change OMA to study income, work hours and overhead Ex-nurse suing hospital over Tiger Woods' records Opioid prescribing rates, doses and mortality rise in nonmalignant pain Increase mainly due to an escalating use of long-acting oxycodone. Ontario starts paying for phone consultations Ontario has joined British Columbia and Alberta in introducing telephone consultation fees. First Previous 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 Next Last