Practice Tips

Physicians are socialized to be humble. We’re shamed for pride, especially as an individual. But who, exactly, does this serve? Physician pay keeps eroding while the cost of living—and patient anger—rises.

If patients have patchy hair, hair loss, or hair that won’t grow because it keeps breaking off, a contributing culprit could be the type of hair brush they are using.

Examine your workflow and see where pharmacists’ time can be freed up and refocused into caring for patients and providing prescribing services.

Most people who use tobacco want to quit, but very few do so with willpower alone.

‘The gratification that one gets when you are able to save a person's limb, that's pretty big . . .. That kind of a win doesn't occur too often in family medicine.’

The College of Pharmacy of Newfoundland and Labrador conducted a survey in response to growing concerns about poor work environments.

See what your colleagues say. Take our weekly doctor poll.

A modern medical fable, with apologies to Ashkenazi folklore and Julia Donaldson.