Licensing

'We are calling on these solutions to be moved on now,' said Dr. Rose Zacharias, president of the Ontario Medical Association.

When you’re on social media and people know you’re a doctor, you’re representing the profession. But you also want to be authentic as a person.

Tina Drew, president of Local 11 with the union, says one nurse recently worked more than a 20-hour shift, and it's not exceptional circumstance.

Beta Therapeutics isn't the first in the province to go this route. A family physician at another clinic, Perpetual Health Centre, is charging new patients $125 a month starting Nov. 1.

No fewer than 62 pharmacists will see their right to practice suspended because they did not complete the hours of continuing education activities required during the reference period which ended last spring.

Nurse practitioner-led clinics are a concern in the U.S. and some Canadian FPs wonder if they will undercut MD-led care here.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia rejected Dr. Franklyn Vincent's assertion that a letter he wrote a patient's lawyer revealing "shocking information" about the patient's condition was merely intended to correct inaccuracies.

The pharmacist in charge's failures resulted in, among other things, a relief pharmacist scrambling to future out how to obtain an opioid antagonist maintenance treatment permit while patients waited at the pharmacy for the treatment.