Practice Tips

N.S. rolls out $10K incentive for doctors to take on sickest patients from wait list

Nova Scotia is offering doctors $10,000 to remove 50 patients from the province’s wait list.
Poll: Doctors, is there sometimes value from ‘yelling’ at patients?

Take our weekly doctor poll. See what your colleagues say.
Five clinical pearls: How to counsel patients about long-acting reversible contraception

Focus on your patient's needs and find the best fit for them.
Why pain seems worse at night

Why do patients feel the pain more intensely at night? What does science have to say about it?
Dear CFPC Board: Provide business training to family physician residents

Rather than expand family medicine residency to three years we should fix the residency program rather than simply extending it with an additional year of training, argues Dr. Sohail Gandhi.
When more gets you most: These doctors say full integration of pharmacists into family health teams brings great advantages

According to doctors who participated in a Quebec pilot project, the value of pharmacists who work in family medicine groups is optimized when they work more hours and are fully integrated in the clinic.
Case report: Cellulitis or allergy?

A concerning insect bite on a patient at Dr. Robert Dickson's walk-in clinic requires some combination therapy.
The challenges of inefficiency in the healthcare system

The 'system' is us and we need to pull up our sleeves and start cleaning up the mess, says Dr. Irith Lebovich.

Nova Scotia doctors to vote on new contracts after five months of negotiations