Corporate Governance

Depending on your finances, these changes with impact individual physicians very differently.

There are good business reasons to adopt sound accounting practices. Detailed, exact books can help you assess your pharmacy’s financial performance and find areas of strength, weakness, opportunity and risk. They also make your life a lot easier when you have to deal with regulators, tax authorities or financial institutions. But they are absolutely essential when you want to sell your business for a good price.

Pharmacists in a Shoppers Drug Mart in Ottawa saved a customer’s life after she collapsed in the store, thanks to having a defibrillator close at hand.

Over the last several months, I have observed so many leaders throughout the various areas of healthcare doing wonderful things. People on the cutting edge of care who are pushing for a brighter tomorrow for their patients, their colleagues and themselves. Yet, we still face major issues.

Dr. Shawn Whatley argues that much of medicare’s dysfunction comes from compromises made to win votes in moments of political weakness.

Four Quebec physicians tell us what they’d like to change to improve their practice, their workplace environment and the healthcare system.

Out of the 56 recommendations, 30 action items have now been implemented, the territory says.

CPSO fixed a loophole so suspensions and resignations of hospital privileges are no longer posted to doctors’ public profiles.