From the magazine

Rounds: Doctors’ friendships
A Medscape online survey completed by 1,063 Canadian doctors last year and released this spring found that 67% of Canadian physicians said they don’t have enough time to maintain their close friendships.
Handling demanding patients
Digital communication can make the doctor-patient relationship more fraught.

Frustration of fragmented care

Expanding scopes of practice for NPs and pharmacists working independently outside of teams is adding to the strain on doctors.
Rounds: Private delivery ≠ private pay

It is almost like the phrase ‘private care’ should be retired in favour of two terms.
Metabolic adverse effects of antipsychotics

A recent network meta-analysis investigated the mid- to long-term metabolic effects of antipsychotics in randomized controlled trials of 13 weeks’ duration or longer in patients with schizophrenia.
4 clinically significant drug-drug interactions docs should remember when prescribing

Doctors need to fight the inertia that can result from software programs providing a full list of DDIs—some of which aren't clinically significant.
Strategic change

We need to find ways to give other people hope. When our hearts want to fix the system, but our minds are exhausted, we have problems.
Caring for transgender and gender diverse patients

How pharmacists can create safer spaces and support gender-affirming care for their patients
Helping patients with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis

A new oral antifungal (oteseconazole) specifically indicated for the treatment of RVVC was approved in the United States in April 2022 and is currently on fast-track, priority review by Health Canada.
Deprescribing: Three main types of meds it may be worth helping your patients cut

It’s not uncommon for older adults to plonk down a Ziplock bag packed with pill bottles when asked about what medications they’re taking.

Rounds: Doctors’ friendships

Handling demanding patients

Frustration of fragmented care

Rounds: Private delivery ≠ private pay

Metabolic adverse effects of antipsychotics

4 clinically significant drug-drug interactions docs should remember when prescribing

Strategic change

Caring for transgender and gender diverse patients

Helping patients with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis

Deprescribing: Three main types of meds it may be worth helping your patients cut