The province established what’s now known as the Temporary Locum Program during the pandemic and has renewed it several times, often at the last minute.
Manitoba’s pharmacists should be able to assess and prescribe for more minor ailments—and they need provincial funding to pay for those services, says Pharmacists Manitoba.
‘The level of stress on family doctors and emergency physicians has really quite drastically increased since I started to practice about 10 years ago.’
Toronto family physician Dr. Mei Lump-Mee Hwang, who kept the same patient waiting on several occasions—sometimes for as long as six hours—has been suspended for 12 months.
A competing pharmacy owner told the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec that he sometimes followed Sonnie Albert-Giroux. On some of these occasions, he alleged, she arrived at her pharmacy after it had already opened.
Going unmatched in 2003 gave me some serious doubts about my abilities. My skills. Was it a mistake to go into medicine? Could I be happy in another field? Did I leave the stove on?
Among residents, experiences with uncivilized behaviour by doctors seem more frequent for those with certain characteristics. Do you happen to be a young, not-so-tall, female junior trainee? Oh boy.
