As trusted healthcare providers, pharmacists are best positioned to help their patients ensure continuity in their medication adherence and management during an emergency.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia proposed the new role of associate physician in April 2020 to address the province's healthcare needs, allowing doctors who weren't eligible for a full licence to work under physician supervision.
Twenty years ago, when I was narrowing down the residency programs to which I would apply, internal medicine rose to the top of my list. A major part of what drew me to it was the challenge of its complexity: the required knowledge of our bodies’ systems as discrete parts and also how they interact.
Dr. Akbar Nauman Khan—who has restrictions related to ivermectin and COVID vaccine exemptions—told one patient’s oncologist that SAFE chemotherapy had an FDA-approved trial and was okayed for off-label use for colon cancer. In reality, he had no evidence of this, according to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal.