Practice Tips

The bill is now being studied by the justice committee after passing second reading in the House of Commons 246-78 in late October.

Since 2016, Health Canada has directed patients to clinicians like me to obtain an authorization for cannabis. When this happened, I used to reply: “I don’t prescribe that. There isn’t much evidence.” Wouldn’t it have been great if there was a simple, straightforward, non-industry-sponsored resource to help me prescribe?

The pandemic has thrown a major new curveball at pharmacists when it comes to assessing patient symptoms during cold and flu season. Here are some useful questions to ask when screening patients with winter respiratory symptoms.

Over the past several months, the society has been negotiating a plan whereby P.E.I. doctors will be paid to recruit other doctors to practice on the Island.

Acute care patients can voluntarily become part of the program if they're assessed by a doctor as a good candidate, have a caregiver at home and who would normally only require and brief hospital stay and live within a short drive of a hospital.

Increase in dispensing fees and flu shot fees sought, to cover COVID-19 related expenditures by pharmacies.

The report emphasized that physicians still don't know protocols around who will be denied care if hospitals are overwhelmed and don't have procedures in place to deal with a care-home outbreak that merits rapid intervention.