Family doctors, including the president of the Alberta Medical Association, said they have seen no relief in their own practices and in the healthcare system more broadly since the province launched its Healthcare Action Plan.
The Medical Council of Canada now has funding to create a National Registry of Physicians, which could be an integral tool as discussions about the need for physician mobility get louder.
Association president Dr. Alika Lafontaine says big investments do seem to have made a difference, but progress backslid when parties stopped working together.
Depression rates among teens have been increasing since the early 2000s. A 2018 national survey found that 13.3% of U.S. adolescents experienced a major depressive episode in the last year.
In addition to Lyme disease, four other tick-borne diseases have started to emerge in Canada—anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Powassan virus and Borrelia miyamotoi disease.
Prescribers who co-sign, counter-sign or rewrite a semaglutide prescription for patients they haven’t seen or assessed would be considered in breach of professional standards, say two provincial regulators.
