Practice Management

In addition to agreeing to resign from the college and promising never to reapply in Ontario or any other jurisdiction in Canada, Dr. Robert Stanley Richards has also been fined $6,000.

One Ontario physician, with well above the average patient roster, discusses how he's well underway with leveraging his office's team to provide as much care as they can.

What Canadian healthcare needs is feedback from doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, data managers, economists and patients (and their families).

Instead, the college is recommending doctors use ‘professional judgment to establish a system for triaging patients based on their health needs.’

Ava EMR, now used by clinics in Alberta and B.C., focuses on 80% of work being done from two screens

In summary, we both have a tough job and it’s hard to judge who has it worse.

We all want to get to better places, don’t we? What those better places look like will differ from one person to the next. Everyone has uphill dreams. Sadly, though, many have downhill habits that interfere with achieving those dreams. This is where good leadership becomes so valuable. The leader must define where the team is going and then help them get to that place.

Dr. Amjed Kadhim-Saleh, a Toronto FP and clinic owner and the developer of the AI scribe Pippen, offers up key considerations.