Patient Compliance

No need to wait: U.K.’s chief medical officers outline choice to suspend 15-minute post-jab wait
The U.K.’s chief medical officers provided reasoning behind their decision to forgo the usual post-vaccine waiting time in order to speed up the delivery of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses as omicron spreads.
Aversion to rapid antigen home kits by B.C. is a pandemic failure
When a surgeon decided to delay a patient’s scheduled (non-urgent) operation recently because she had a cough and no one could get a straight answer about her vaccinations status, she became belligerent, threatening to complain to the government that she was being refused healthcare.

My doctor said 'I have to get waxed' South African PSA has Canadians giggling

The video is a public service announcement from South Africa, featuring a man who misunderstands instructions from his doctor on how to ensure a long and happy life.
Yukon to focus on measures to reduce spread of transmissible Omicron variant: premier

Premier Silver told the media Wednesday there are no cases of Omicron currently in Yukon and the two people who had it earlier this month have recovered.
Forced to resign: Doctor treated patient who overdosed 'as though he was a nuisance'

Toronto family physician Dr. Mory Mayer Gutman, who had faced previous sanctions, also provided inadequate care to other patients, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
No consultation: Ontario pharmacists stressed by sudden vax eligibility increase, sloppy gov't messaging

Patients who called up one pharmacy in Hamilton, Ont. this week were met with a blunt answering machine message.
Quiz: Test your knowledge of strep throat

How much do you know about the diagnosis, treatment and complications of group A Streptococcus acute pharyngitis?
Experts call for N95s to become new masking standard to curb Omicron spread

Virginia Tech engineering professor Linsey Marr, who studies viruses in the air, says respirators offer far more protection than a surgical mask, both to the wearer and others around them.
Alberta justice dismisses doctors' requests to be exempt from vaccine policy

An Alberta judge has dismissed an application by four doctors who wanted to be exempt from an Alberta Health Services requirement that all healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Nova Scotia spending $1.3 million to expand virtual-care platform to entire province after successful pilot

The free program is delivered through Maple—a Canadian virtual-care platform—with primary care providers from the province.

No need to wait: U.K.’s chief medical officers outline choice to suspend 15-minute post-jab wait

Aversion to rapid antigen home kits by B.C. is a pandemic failure

My doctor said 'I have to get waxed' South African PSA has Canadians giggling

Yukon to focus on measures to reduce spread of transmissible Omicron variant: premier

Forced to resign: Doctor treated patient who overdosed 'as though he was a nuisance'

No consultation: Ontario pharmacists stressed by sudden vax eligibility increase, sloppy gov't messaging

Quiz: Test your knowledge of strep throat

Experts call for N95s to become new masking standard to curb Omicron spread

Alberta justice dismisses doctors' requests to be exempt from vaccine policy

Nova Scotia spending $1.3 million to expand virtual-care platform to entire province after successful pilot