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- 10/7/2020
Montreal doctors call for more family physician permits
Quebec's health ministry recently stated it intends to issue 98 family doctor permits for 2021, comparable to this year. - 10/7/2020
Drive thru flu shot clinic 'a rehearsal for the COVID vaccine'
Monte Steeves, owner of a Moncton, N.B., said pharmacists across the country are talking about best practices for everything from testing to vaccines at pharmacies right now, recognizing that different regions have different needs. - 10/7/2020
Hospital CEO speaks out after nooses again found at hospital construction site
Sarah Downey, president and CEO at Michael Garron Hospital, has written a letter to EllisDon's CEO after a third incidence of anti-Black racism took place on the EllisDon construction site in a four-month period. The incidents happened on the site where a hospital extension is being built at the Michael Garron Hospital in East York, a suburb of Toronto. - 10/7/2020
FPs as frazzled as their patients during pandemic
Family medicine is in a state of crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic which, eight months in, has totally disrupted primary care physicians’ ability to provide face-to-face, quality care. Things are so bad that while governments are urging everyone to get a flu shot to avoid a “twindemic” many have expressed their confusion about finding out where to get that shot, just days away from the time when people typically start getting them. - 10/7/2020
Quebec doctor calls on peers to confront systemic racism
Last week, Quebec's government ordered an inquiry into the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from Manawan who recorded workers at the Centre hospitalier de Lanaudière in Joliette mocking her with sexist and racist abuse soon before she died. - 10/7/2020
Take Black excellence all the way to the top
The goal here is not to admonish Canada’s most revered medical organizations, but rather to illustrate the historic and longstanding dearth of Black representation in Canadian medical leadership. Over the past few years, calls to address barriers to achieving diversity in the Canadian health workforce have been gaining momentum. Diversity exists along a broad spectrum that includes gender, socioeconomic, linguistic, and racial subsets, to mention a few. Acknowledging that there exist many populations that are also underrepresented in the highest echelons of Canadian medical leadership, this article speaks specifically to the paucity of Black Canadians in formal physician leadership roles while proposing four key recommendations for addressing this diversity gap. - 10/6/2020
Risk of cardiovascular events with SGLT2 inhibitors versus DPP-4 inhibitors
Canadian researchers compare the “real world” risk of cardiovascular events with SGLT2 inhibitors and DPP-4 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes.