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- 7/15/2018
Toronto's medical officer of health wants feds to decriminalize all drugs for personal use
Dr. Eileen de Villa said prevention and harm reduction strategies are undermined due to the criminalization of drugs - 7/15/2018
If Canada wants national pharmacare, taxes will have to go up, former PBO warns
Kevin Page will present this argument to provincial and territorial lawmakers during a meeting Friday, July 20 - 7/12/2018
Case Report: Now that's a rash!
A few days ago, an 18-year-old foreign student with brown skin presented to our walk-in clinic for an opinion about a rash on his back. - 7/11/2018
Half of pediatricians surveyed say their young patients have used cannabis
More than 316 doctors also said they had been asked by a parent or adolescent patient to prescribe cannabis - 7/11/2018
Sad stories make bad policy – activism
- 7/11/2018
Saskatchewan woman suing doctor for negligence in mother's death
The patient's daughter alleges the doctor falsified her clinical notes in an attempt to 'conceal the true facts' - 7/11/2018
Alberta colleges working to identify unethical collaboration between pharmacists and physicians
The pharmacist and physician regulators issued a joint statement reiterating the professions of their ethical obligation, but there does not appear to be a change in policy or procedure - 7/11/2018
Medical errors linked to burnout: study
Although the California-based study authors did not examine whether burnout was causing errors or if errors were causing burnout