On the surface, for many pharmacists meeting a customer’s needs might mean filling an Rx accurately with the appropriate counselling, but the more important benefit is not necessarily the patient’s stated purpose.
Traditional customs surrounding pregnancy and birth are diverse as humanity itself. But some of these beliefs and rituals have fascinating modern medical validity.
The pharmacist was abrupt when I arrived for my flu shot. She looked only at her computer and mispronounced my name twice. The next day, I saw another pharmacist for my COVID booster. 'It's so boring,' he complained, when I asked how he was coping with his work.
The Alberta College of Pharmacy will update its Standards of Practice for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians next year, with the hope of getting the final changed version in place by late 2023.
'The only reason she did it was greed,' the crown prosecutor argued at Dr. Yifei Shi's sentencing hearing. 'We trust doctors with our lives. We should be able to trust them with our money.'
Does it matter that Dr. Kieran Moore, as a public health official, didn't exactly set an example after strongly recommending Ontarians mask up in public?
Dr. Paul Fedak, who is Ukrainian-Canadian, said he was watching a social media post months ago of a Ukrainian cardiac surgeon, Dr. Igor Mokryk, taking patients down into a bunker as bombs were going off overhead.
