Saskatchewan Health Minister Everett Hindley has said the average wait time for breast cancer tests should be three weeks, but patients are instead waiting about 10 weeks.
Medicine is a draining job. On holiday, the author embraced an Italian phrase and spent days doing nothing and discovering the beauty and wonder in the simplicity of idle moments.
The National Health Service is launching a publicity campaign after figures showed there were about 250 confirmed measles cases in parts of England last year.
‘Despite the fact that systems [around the world] are so different, the challenges are very much the same,’ says Sandra Hanna, chief executive officer of the association.
In a live poll at the OPA RxTalks conference, 95% of pharmacists in the audience said they had experienced or witnessed mistreatment by a patient. The problem goes beyond the people in that room and it's time to address it.