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- 5/11/2022
Doctor groups in B.C. upset by Health Minister's comments about nurse practitioners providing 'better' care
In the legislature earlier this week, B.C.'s Health Minister Adrian Dix said nurse practitioners in the province are taking on patients with a higher severity of need, often spending more time with said patients. - 5/10/2022
Why would anyone want to be a family doctor?
Let's find a way to make family medicine the first-choice career or calling for more medical school graduates. - 5/10/2022
Ontario Liberals promise $1B to clear surgery backlog from pandemic
Leader Steven Del Duca said a Liberal government would put the additional funding into allowing hospitals to operate "significantly'' above pre-pandemic volumes. - 5/10/2022
B.C.'s physicians and surgeons are highest COVID vaccinated group, naturopaths lowest
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Tuesday nearly 94% of practising and regulated professionals have received at least two doses of a vaccine or have a medical exemption from her office as of April 25. - 5/10/2022
How COVID-spurred clinical assessment centres could become a new model for providing access to care
County councillors were told county paramedics began the transition from COVID-19 testing clinics to Clinical Assessment Centres over the past several weeks. - 5/10/2022
Social prescriptions: Why some healthcare practitioners are prescribing food to their patients
Hippocrates supposedly said, “Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be food.” Now, almost 2,400 years later, the “food is medicine framework” promotes the idea that healthcare systems should offer food interventions alongside pharmaceuticals. - 5/10/2022
The tiniest babies: Shifting the boundary of life earlier
Growing numbers of extremely premature infants are getting life-saving treatment and surviving. - 5/10/2022
New guidelines for peripheral artery disease released by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society
Designed to help family doctors manage the disease, help prevent limb loss. - 5/10/2022
Jennifer Litterick, CEO, EnsembleIQ honoured as a change-maker in the information services industry
EnsembleIQ is the parent company of the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice + Business. - 5/10/2022
Liberal government gives $3.5 million to abortion access projects in Canada
The funding is the first to come from a year-old budget pledge to spend $45 million over three years to help organizations make sexual and reproductive information and services more available.