Discussions

If we are to survive, we must rethink our service models not as transactions, but as trust lines.

If you had to quickly explain to someone what a pharmacist does, what would you say? Your answer may be important for ensuring the profession is valued by patients, policy makers—and future pharmacists.

The third episode of the 'Rings a bell' podcast—hosting educational conversations to help busy pharmacy professionals stay on top of the clinical info they need—covers general metabolic health as it relates to pharmaceuticals, the microbiome and nutrition.

Over the past few years, I’ve written several articles praising the Canadian healthcare system based on my own experiences or the experiences of those close to me. But my family’s recent experience has me wondering if the system is collapsing into third-world status or if this incident was simply an outlier.

Doctors are people and people get tired, crabby, angry, hungry and frustrated just like all animals and humans. When you put that together with kids, a mortgage, in-laws, different sex drives, money quarrels and child rearing approaches, I can’t believe the divorce rate is only 50% for all couples.

New evidence from our team suggests that not only did the reform reduce ED strain while increasing demand for outpatient physician care, but it also has done something neither side imagined: reduce inequities in access to care.

About one-third of the family doctors I spoke at a conference were at some stage of quitting family medicine. Given that Canada has six million people without a family doctor—which is already a disaster—it’s safe to say our healthcare system won’t survive if this happens.

With her class reunion coming up, Dr. Perle Feldman reflects on a study session she remembers from her medical school days which as held particular significance ever since.