Patient Lifestyle

Medically assisted death rates in Canada have surged to the second highest in the world – and now MAiD for mental illness is to begin in March.

Starts and stops. Birth and deaths. Coverage from the bookends of life.

I believe there’s a gold mine of practical wisdom in the pharmacy profession that deserves to be shared with others who are struggling to overcome practice and professional challenges.

‘My goal is to help drive change in the pharmacy industry and improve access to healthcare for all Canadians.’

Dr. Seonaid Nolan, an addictions-medicine physician with Providence Health Care, says people at the highest risk, who would sometimes have to wait weeks to access detox, are now able to get it in days.

Ocular syphilis has been described as the great imitator. It can manifest in a multitude of ways and as such the diagnosis can be missed.

The pilot project will look to place 1,500 asylum seekers in healthcare jobs over the next three years, the minister said.

Now 63, Mike Sommers of Red Deer Alta. details a life complicated by the use of many substances that started with sniffing glue at 14.