ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 11/2/2020
The elegance of broken dishes
I get to thinking there's at least an opportunity, if not an explicit purpose, in our trajectory toward senescence. On bad days, it freaks me out and I enter my default existentialism that seems to have coloured most of my life, from frantically saving the dying insects on the surface of my childhood pool to contemplating the spirited air that must surround the hallways of our local hospice and its quiet lakeside dock. - 11/2/2020
Life after pharmacy school, a new normal
- 11/2/2020
Illeism or sillyism
Who would have thought that it might be good to talk about yourself in the third person? As if you weren’t you, but him? As if you weren’t actually there, and anyway, you didn’t want yourself to find out you were talking about him in case it seemed like, well, gossip? I mean, only royalty, or the personality-disordered, are able to talk like that without somebody phoning the police. - 11/1/2020
N.L. premier wants to maintain surgical credentials
Dr. Furey, who is 45 years old, asserted he plans to have a "life after politics," and that he doesn't want his stint as premier to jeopardize his future career as a physician. - 11/1/2020
COVID-19 underscores need for Canada to approve HIV self tests: CMAJ
A new paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal is reiterating calls from the health-care community for Canada to follow dozens of other countries in introducing HIV self-testing kits. - 11/1/2020
Federal government's reintroduced MAiD bill has doctors divided
Proposed legislation to amend Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying goes against the nature of medicine, which is to heal patients and alleviate suffering, says Dr. Ramona Coelho, a family physician in London, Ont. Dr. Coelho is among a group of physicians who wrote an open letter opposing Bill C-7. More than 800 Canadian doctors have now signed the letter. - 11/1/2020
Rexall pausing flu vaccinations amid supply issues in Ontario
The province said previously that it ordered 5.1 million individual doses of the flu vaccine this year, a 16% increase from 2019. - 11/1/2020
Health Canada requests stronger warnings on 'Z-drugs'
Commonly known as 'Z-drugs,' these medications — used to treat sleep and anxiety disorders, some seizure disorders and to relax muscles or relieve muscle spasms — can lead to problematic use and substance use disorder, according to Health Canada. - 11/1/2020
New MediSystem location to open in Edmonton
Owned and operated by Shoppers Drug Mart, MediSystem pharmacies offer pharmaceutical dispensing and clinical pharmacy consulting services to the senior housing community and group home facilities.