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- 10/21/2018
Study of U.S. hospital figures links pot use with increasing risk of stroke
From data covering 2.3 million hospitalizations of adult cannabis users, researchers found a steady increase in the number of strokes suffered - 10/21/2018
Ontario funding for flu vaccine causes confusion
Frustration and confusion: thanks to the unusual funding situation in Ontario for the new high-dose trivalent inactivated vaccine (TIV) for influenza, those two words aptly describe how some adults aged 65 and older feel when they go to their pharmacy to get their flu shot this year. - 10/21/2018
Foucault’s father: A brief personal and medical history
In the Birth of the Clinic, published in 1963, Foucault introduced the ‘medical gaze,’ a theory that suggested the way doctors view their patients is, by the very virtue of their work, dehu-manizing. - 10/21/2018
Shoppers Drug Mart to begin tracking pharmacy performance
The metrics will be tracked according to standards set by Green Shield Canada - 10/21/2018
The unofficial rules for firing patients
Every doctor has considered it, but a few have even developed their own rules for determining when it’s time for a patient to go. - 10/21/2018
Weird gifts from patients
To be sure, as the colleges of physicians and surgeons will sternly tell you, doctors are only allowed to accept unsolicited gifts from patients that are ‘modest tokens of appreciation.’