Discussions

In February 2022 the new CPA chair informed me that the old CPA Board voted to recommend my suspension as a CPA member. Many of you have followed my painful journey with the association of which I was once president. But, today, my attention is drawn to new opportunities moving forward.

Referred to as the “medication safety pharmacist” among her colleagues at the hospital, MacInnis is trusted and consulted interprofessionally by other sites on ways to reduce medication incidents.

As trusted healthcare providers, pharmacists are best positioned to help their patients ensure continuity in their medication adherence and management during an emergency.

Twenty years ago, when I was narrowing down the residency programs to which I would apply, internal medicine rose to the top of my list. A major part of what drew me to it was the challenge of its complexity: the required knowledge of our bodies’ systems as discrete parts and also how they interact.

There are communities all over Canada in desperate need of more doctors. Could you be persuaded to pick up and move?

I have medical colleagues with Russian passports. They are living and working in Canada for a reason. They are not happy with what is going on in Russia. As a medical director, should I demand that they publicly denounce Putin or they shouldn’t work at our clinic? 

With CTV News reporting that 40 physicians at Trillium Health Partners have hired a lawyer alleging physicians are targets of abusive and unprofessional behaviour by the hospital, Dr. Sohail Gandhi argues the province needs to step in.

An FP said to Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes: 'I’m tired. I need two weeks to do nothing.' For doctors with kids, timing your time off with March Break is important but hasn't been so easy.