As we start the new year, Canada’s pharmacare plan stands at a crossroads. Will we deliver universal access to prescription drugs or keep a patchwork system that leaves millions at risk?
The federal government is set to add services provided by nurse practitioners to the Canada Health Act this spring as planned under the previous administration.
The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice said an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 individuals have been sterilized in Canada without proper consent—some as recently as last year.
‘There are many different truths operating at the same time,’ says this early-career psychiatrist of the messiness of moving from textbook theory to practice.
In oncology, we routinely assess whether patients are receiving adequate support for nausea, pain and sleep. We might also ask: How are they breathing?
