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- 2/16/2022
Vaccine policies 'no longer necessary,' Ontario top doc wants to remove them March 1
Dr. Kieran Moore says he's reviewing letters of instruction sent last year to various sectors including hospitals and post-secondary institutions, which required that they develop immunization policies. - 2/16/2022
Newfoundland and Labrador dropping masking, vaccination passport measures March 14
Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, chief medical officer of health, told reporters today that high vaccination rates have helped make it possible to gradually remove the remaining public health measures. - 2/15/2022
New Brunswick Nurses Union issues call for action to address working conditions
Union president Paula Doucet says working conditions have become increasingly unbearable, resulting in more nurses moving away from the province or leaving the profession. - 2/15/2022
They bear witness to their mistakes
A surgeon, a pharmacist and a nurse agreed to talk about their mistakes. Two do it anonymously, for fear of the consequences it could have and one with his face uncovered. - 2/15/2022
OMA proposes Ontario fund new surgical centres to catch up on procedure
A new report from the OMA outlines a proposal to create Integrated Ambulatory Centres across the province, which would work with local hospitals to perform medical services insured by the province. - 2/15/2022
‘Just culture’ borrowed from Boeing
The Medical Post's sister magazine in Quebec recently examined the taboo subject of healthcare workers’ mistakes. Here is the final installment of the five-part series. - 2/15/2022
COPD screening and management for primary care pharmacists
As the healthcare professionals patients see most often, pharmacists have a critical role to play in identification of patients who should be referred on for assessment for COPD. Since the disease evolves slowly, changes aren’t as easily noticed and disease can be advanced by the time patients seek help from their physician. - 2/15/2022
'Leave the area now,' police warn downtown Ottawa demonstrators
Officers walked along Wellington Street handing out notices to protesters encamped there, telling them they "must leave the area now.'' - 2/15/2022
Addressing the global antiviral deficit
In the rush to acquire vaccines, Canada overlooked the need to simultaneously create an antiviral development strategy. We need to make up for lost time. - 2/15/2022
Dream team: Makers of the Rx Billing Genie app
Pharmacist Shelley Morgan and pharmacy assistant Nicola Sancho-Persad have partnered on an app that makes billing pain vanish.