Cultural Competence

I'm sitting on the couch completing the charts I've dragged home from the office. Age 14, my daughter Emma confronts me with the eyeroll and contemptuous drawl of the young teenager. “Don’t think I’m ever going to be a doctor, Mom!”

Or perhaps we are too stuck in just focusing on our technical dispensing functions.

As such, rather than blaming female physicians, we must critically assess the systemic factors that lead to lower earnings and dispel myths about the physician wage gap.

In our new peer-to-peer help column, pharmacists from across Canada will help you with your workplace, practice or career dilemmas. What’s your question?

The most recent figures from New Brunswick’s Health Department are notable given the ongoing outbreak of measles in the province.

Darold Sturgeon was fired as executive director of medical affairs for Interior Health in November 2021 after refusing to get the vaccine based on his Christian beliefs.

The infection announced earlier this month was the first human case of H5N1 avian flu acquired in Canada.