Diffusing Difficult Patients

Here Dr. Jabir Jassam offers part one of a four-part series on: Why we burn out: The unseen hurdles.

With 10,000 patients being de-rostered due to a shortage of family doctors in her city, Dr. Adrianna Schamp talks the challenges of family medicine.

Some patients seem to think doctors aren’t allowed to say ‘no.’

A patient acted surprised when I refused to fill a virtual care order for high dose pregabalin after getting an electronic message that he already filled it somewhere else that day. Given that he received seven different pregabalin prescriptions in the past six months from seven different virtual care clinics located in various cities across Canada, my radar was on high alert.

The Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia created the campaign in response to high levels of harassment of pharmacy staff.

It's an ages old contention—and Dr. Adam Stewart wants to draw some fresh attention to how specialists can make life harder for family doctors.

Take the words right out of their mouths: advice to earlier career colleagues.

Today family physician Dr. Adam Stewart offers up this almost haiku-like short blog.