Cultural Competence

As pharmacists, we are cautious by nature, and recent concerns surrounding this new technology are certainly valid: Who gets to decide who controls the information that is being provided? How do we protect patient confidentiality if an AI tool is using patient data? How do we ensure that patients are receiving the right information and not being led astray by someone who has created a language model that provides misinformation?

Intervention without human rights goes by many names—involuntary institutionalization, compulsory drug treatment, “coerced care,” forced abstinence or a combination of all of those terms.

Dr. Wee-Shian Chan, head of medicine at BC Women’s Hospital, said breathing in pollutants and toxic gases generated by forest fires takes particulate matter into the bloodstream and lungs, making it harder to breathe.

But even great guidelines can’t address gaps in care, Canadian doc says.

A University of British Columbia study found acting more robotic and impersonal could help put people at ease when talking about subjects they consider embarrassing. Healthcare professionals, take note.

N.L. premier Dr. Andrew Furey went to Ireland to talk to Canadians training abroad in medicine.

She was seeking to get the animal’s nails trimmed, which is a service the store does not provide to raccoons.

Quebec pharmacist Quoc Nguyen thought two other pharmacists had counselled the patient about latex in the pre-filled injection caps for Lapelga, which had been prescribed to a cancer patient about to start chemotherapy.