Many in extra vulnerable patient cohorts, like those with heart disease and diabetes, don't realize they're at elevated risk of experiencing severe disease. What can doctors and pharmacists do to help?
Beta Therapeutics isn't the first in the province to go this route. A family physician at another clinic, Perpetual Health Centre, is charging new patients $125 a month starting Nov. 1.
Stress urinary incontinence can erode confidence, diminish social lives, decrease willingness to exercise and create a financial burden buying continence supplies.
The pharmacist in charge's failures resulted in, among other things, a relief pharmacist scrambling to future out how to obtain an opioid antagonist maintenance treatment permit while patients waited at the pharmacy for the treatment.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia rejected Dr. Franklyn Vincent's assertion that a letter he wrote a patient's lawyer revealing "shocking information" about the patient's condition was merely intended to correct inaccuracies.