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- 6/16/2021
Monoclonal antibody combination approved for mild/moderate COVID-19
Health Canada grants interim authorization to Roche’s casirivimab and imdevimab. - 6/16/2021
Former GP, AHS officer arrested on sexual assault
Former AHS North Zone medical officer Albert de Villiers, 52, was charged with one count of sexual assault and sexual interference. - 6/16/2021
What Customers (Really) Want!
As health care professionals, pharmacists have a unique and important role that is multifaceted and ever changing. - 6/16/2021
More Ontarians can book accelerate 2nd dose appointments starting next week
All adults in the province who got their first dose on or after May 10 can book an earlier second shot starting the week of June 28. - 6/16/2021
Family of Halifax area teen who died of meningitis deserves answers: minister
Zach Churchill says the case of Kai Matthews, who died in hospital of the bacterial infection on June 1, is "every family's worst nightmare.'' - 6/16/2021
Tone deaf CFPC fails its members, embarrasses itself
Dr. Sohail Gandhi argues that the recent Canadian Family Physician editorial titled “Family medicine is not a business” is insulting to the work family doctors are doing every day during the pandemic and that the assertions in it by the author Dr. Roger Ladouceur are baseless in their attacks on family doctors. - 6/15/2021
I volunteered as a nurse's aide during the pandemic. Here's what I learned
This past spring, at the height of the pandemic, pharmacist Aska Patel volunteered to be redeployed as a nurse’s aide at a Barrie, ON. hospital. The experience changed her perspectives on many things. - 6/15/2021
Video: 7 ways to avoid burning out
Physician burnout expert Dr. Mabel Hsin outlines in three videos how to detect burnout in yourself, why physicians see so much burnout and seven steps you can take to avoid burnout. - 6/15/2021
2021 is the year of the pharmacist
- 6/15/2021
Patients as friends, friends as patients
I grew up in Iraq where it is common for doctors to have friends and relatives as patients. I like and embraced the Canadian rules about not doing that but, despite my hyper vigilance, a few things slipped away from my hands early in my practice. . . .