The practice can disrupt patients' relationships with their pharmacists, fragmenting their care and confusing patients and caregivers, the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association argues in a new statement.
We are medical anthropologists who have researched social and cultural dimensions of medical education. As teachers, we have worked with thousands of undergraduate pre-meds.
A Saskatchewan doctor has been charged with unprofessional conduct after allegedly sending a fax to a pharmacy that disparaged homeless people and cancelled a patient’s prescription to punish the pharmacy for serving a local homeless encampment.
Ontario endocrinologist Dr. Elika Safar Zadeh also threatened to jeopardize the patient’s child custody status by filing a lawsuit for harassment and defamation, according to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal.