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Compassion Fatigue

  • Feeling resentful and angry? Try this.

    Even though we no longer have to fight or flee live-threatening danger all day, our human brains are programmed to scan for danger and remember negative experiences over positive ones. Here’s how to flip the switch on that program and be more content.
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  • Dealing with the three phases of pharmacist ego

    Across years of experience practising pharmacy, a pharmacist may go through a natural incline in ego during a steep initial learning phase, followed by a plateau. Here pharmacists have seen many of the more intense challenges already and the number of new headaches flattens out. Finally, towards approximately the last third of the pharmacists’ career, they begin feeling less driven by ego and let the problems around them simmer or settle.
    Jason Chenard
  • Part 1: A fine balance

    The art of ending a doctor-patient relationship (more advice to early career colleagues) from Dr. Eric Cadesky.
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  • The risky doctor

    We crave security but we can’t try new things without risk—so how to strike the balance?
  • The invaluable skill of regulating yourself

    Ruminating over a stressful event is like holding your hand on a hot burner. Why do we do that? And how can we stop?
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  • How colourful, personalized patches bring joy to young cancer patients

    When Oliver Burkhardt underwent leukemia treatment at age 9, he'd enter the hospital wearing his patch-covered denim jacket. Pokemon. Superman. NASA. Police, fire, military. Classic rock bands.
    Child wearing IV tube is standing and looking out the window in hospital
  • Manitoba sees record physician shortage improve

    Manitoba saw a record net gain of 133 physicians in 2023 but still second worst in the country for doctors per capita.
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  • Tips from a tech for a better flu season

    Here are my suggestions for streamlining your vaccination workflow to help decrease the risk of errors and improve an otherwise taxing time.
    Pharmacy technician Alicia Levnan poses with her white dog
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