ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 11/9/2020
Alberta doctors ask province to enact immediate two-week lockdown to contain COVID-19
Dr. Gibnet told CBC News Premier Kenney's response to the rising numbers—refusal to enact a lockdown, citing harm to businesses and Albertans' mental health—prompted the letter. - 11/9/2020
Steep rise in COVID-19 infections among B.C. healthcare workers
Data provided by the B.C. government shows that as of Nov. 4 when there were a cumulative 16,135 lab-confirmed cases in B.C., the number of infections among healthcare workers was 1,442. Three months ago, the figure was 822. - 11/9/2020
Quebec pharmacists giving flu shots for first time this year
Going to the pharmacy to get a flu shot is nothing new in Quebec but until this year nurses were giving the injections. Last year about 75% of community pharmacies offered flu shots delivered by nurses who administered approximately 350,000 doses. - 11/9/2020
Made-in-Canada test strips could enable COVID-19 testing in pharmacies
New made-in-Canada test strips used to identify SARS-CoV-2 will allow rapid point-of-care RT-PCR testing in remote locations, workplace settings or pharmacies. The test strips are thermostable, meaning they don’t need refrigeration or cold-chain storage during transportation. - 11/8/2020
Mask laws: Necessary or nonsense?
- 11/8/2020
Waterloo region physician recruitment goes virtual
The typical in-person meet and greet and tour put on each year by the Kitchener-Waterloo chamber of commerce was instead held using an online platform. - 11/8/2020
Manitoba teaming up with doctors to enhance virtual care
New options will allow specialists and family physicians in the province to offer more comprehensive virtual visits, giving them more time to take a full patient history, review test results with patients and discuss treatment options. - 11/8/2020
Learning medicine between worlds
I think about certain patients, displaced from the certainties of their lives in their home countries. They have, for complicated reasons, chosen to leave the world they grew up in to make a new life in Canada. The dominant culture here is so foreign, so strange to them. Some are ready to embrace it and go forward, and some are stuck and cannot adjust.