With this new monthly articles series, I aim to get practitioners on the same page on the finer points of why patients experience pain and what we can do about it.
Current pharmacy Acts continue to require pharmacists to perform as de facto security guards. Surely other trusted staff are qualified to take on that responsibility so we can stick to patient care.
Just looking at the broad stroke numbers of what it was like for me starting out as a family doctor in the 1990s compared with today—it makes no financial sense for a new MD to pick family medicine.
As a medical student, I always admired my classmates’ ability to create clinical vignettes that succinctly captured the essence of a patient’s condition.