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Templates, patients and scribes
Three doctors outline their different techniques to reduce your time on paperwork.
The (medical) funny pages: the old and the young
Your weekly dose of giggles—take two, or even three (as needed) with or without your Saturday morning coffee.

How to stop patient hostility

An FBI special agent shares his top strategies for defusing difficult situations and creating calm.
The (pharmaceutical) funny pages: It's all fun and games until . . .

Your weekly dose of the giggles—take two (or even three!) with or without your Saturday morning coffee!
Ontario expanding access to COVID-19 PCR testing, Paxlovid amid sixth wave

The province says anyone 70 and older, people 60 and older with fewer than three doses of a COVID-19, and people 18 and older with fewer than three vaccine doses and at least one risk factor such as a chronic medical condition can now be tested and assessed for treatment.
Can cancer blood tests live up to promise of saving lives?
My fake employee did it: Pharmacist who made fraudulent claims hit with 13-month suspension and $17,500 in costs

Rami Abdelmalek, co-owner of a Pharmasave in Ottawa, tried to pin misconduct on an employee who didn’t exist, according to the Ontario College of Pharmacists
Prescription for safety: First-of-its kind fentanyl program launches in B.C.

Concerns that patients of the new program, will resell their prescription fentanyl are unfounded, said Lisa McBain, co-founder of Moms Stop the Harm, a network of families affected by substance abuse.
Portable MRI machine could revolutionize healthcare, Ontario doctors say

Swoop, a portable MRI scanner created by Hyperfine in the U.S., can be wheeled to patients to perform the scan instead of the other way around.
Families say 'forced' care won't work for youth while others say it could save lives

Laws vary across Canada for what amounts to involuntary detox for minors who are sometimes detained through the emergency department following an overdose.