Patient advocacy groups and medical associations use polls to gauge the public’s interest or knowledge about an issue. Yet when headlines scream “Most Canadians agree ‘Canada is broken’,” it makes one wonder: Is polling broken?
Had Ontario pharmacy owner Mojgan Bijanzadeh been more diligent, she would have found out that the two Ontario-certified physicians named on the prescriptions no longer practised in the country and never authorized the drugs.
Physicians will only have to cover their mouths and nose if they are within two metres of a patient and not shielded by a physical barrier, or if there is an active COVID-19 outbreak in the unit.