Practice Tips

Hundreds of women have signed on to a class action lawsuit and mass tort against Bayer, which made Essure, a permanent birth control device.

Dragana Skokovic-Sunjic has followed her curiosity from working as a community pharmacist to becoming a specialist in menopause, part of a family health team, and the founder of a widely used informational resource on probiotics. Here’s how she did it:

Technicians will be at the centre of a paradigm shift in community pharmacy.

An ophthalmologist pulled out, layer by layer, a 'huge, dark-purple blob of contact lenses' stuck to the eye of a 70-year-old female patient. 'She said she felt much better already,' recalled the doctor.

The new-to-practice contract is an hours-based two-year contract.

An existing short-duration certificate—which is good for 30 days and requires supervision—will stay in place.

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Extra cash, more fun, something different—all reasons doctors do work outside of their provincial payer.