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- 8/25/2022
Leaked documents: North Vancouver Island braces for fall as healthcare crisis threatens to get worse
There should be the equivalent of seven full-time doctors in the community, but only two physicians remain at the community clinic, while the third is shifting to cover acute or emergency care, the documents said. - 8/25/2022
The (medical) funny pages: Welcome to the Jurassic Park Emergency Department
Dr. Cliff Reid, an emergency medicine and intensive care medicine doctor from Sydney, examined what it would be like to combine the emergency department with the prehistoric world of giant lizards. - 8/25/2022
Ontario COVID-19 science table being dissolved
Members of Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table say Public Health Ontario has informed them the group is being dissolved as of Sept. 6. - 8/24/2022
$118M to support B.C. family doctors, keep clinics open until new pay model: Dix
FPs in B.C. will be eligible for an average $25,000 each to help tide them over until a new compensation model is established this fall, Health Minister Adrian Dix said Wednesday. - 8/24/2022
Swiss drugmaker Novartis to spin off generics unit Sandoz
Sandoz was one of two Swiss companies that merged more than a quarter-century ago to form Novartis. - 8/24/2022
'Obsession with efficiency': More than half of docs suffering burnout symptoms: CMA survey
The survey suggests that one-quarter of respondents were experiencing severe or moderate anxiety and almost half of the respondents were struggling with depression. - 8/24/2022
Amazon to shutter virtual healthcare service Amazon Care
Amazon Care isn't the company's first failed health effort. - 8/24/2022
Researchers urge more limits on edibles after finding jump in kid cannabis poisonings
Hospitalizations jumped more than two and a half times immediately after Canada green-lit recreational use of dried cannabis flower in October 2018.