Team Based Care

We live in a world where men are expected to be more assertive and women are assumed to be more nurturing, and so maybe we just see what we are looking for.

Dalhousie researchers compared emergency room visits in Nova Scotia hospitals before and after pharmacists began prescribing preventative treatment in 2021.

One in three patients over 70 leaves hospital less able to care for themselves than when they arrived. I am an internist. I have taught that number to my trainees. This fall, I watched it happen to my father.

The report found the Health Department’s data on primary care wait-lists was inaccurate and unreliable.

A four-week placement in a Cree community gave one McGill medical student a deeper understanding of culturally responsive care and showed how trust, relationships and community are central to better health.

How pharmacist Yolanda Yeung helped build a community pharmacy model that literally cares for patients where they live.

My father died on his own terms thanks to an extraordinary care team.

Building clinical confidence when you’ve still got most of your career ahead of you.

Keeping first appointment clinical and moving admin work into a digital pre‑visit process is working.

Aspects of the new model may financially discourage physicians from sharing the clinical load with NPs in a team-based setting, NPAO says.