Cultural Competence

With the introduction of new and increasingly effective treatments, it is important for pharmacists to ask, engage and assist people with obesity. But many pharmacists and healthcare professionals don’t feel they have the tools and knowledge for effective management.

Chau Vien Linh Ngo should have clarified the unfamiliar abbreviations with the prescribing physician. Instead she erroneously dispensed a double dose of antibiotics to a patient undergoing hemodialysis, according to the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec.