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.
'We (doctors) are now at risk of not “hearing” our patients’ stories. I am in the process of trialling Mutuo speech recognition. It transcribes the patient-clinician interaction, using machine learning.'
Had Ontario pharmacy owner Mojgan Bijanzadeh been more diligent, she would have found out that the two Ontario-certified physicians named on the prescriptions no longer practised in the country and never authorized the drugs.