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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.

Many Canadians go abroad to study medicine hoping to return to Canada but it isn’t easy. A health lawyer argues we should allow Canadians to self-fund their own residency by offering the funding to training hospitals.

Dr. Norman Keith Lea, a family physician in Nakusp, B.C.—population 1,700—should have practised a greater degree of caution, said the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.

There has been a “vast increase” in forged prescriptions for controlled substances, and pharmacists should be on alert for them, according to The College of Pharmacists of British Columbia. 

College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia board members will no longer be elected by doctors, rather they will be appointed by government.

Like many health professionals, pharmacists have faced burnout and labour shortages since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Love-Robinson first came to national attention in 2016 as an 18-year-old when he was arrested after opening The New Birth New Life Medical Center, identifying himself as "Dr. Love.''

Goal is to relieve pressure on family doctors and emergency departments.