Medical Practice News

Canada's MAID laws on 'a collision course' as Parliament awaits legal challenges
Some witnesses characterized MAID as ‘legalized serial killing,’ or argued it amounts to a state-sponsored program of discarding vulnerable people. Others, like Downie, said extending MAID to people with mental illness is legally required.
How Quebec has influenced medical assistance in dying across Canada
The province now has the highest MAID rate in the world.

‘I have two machines, one for the Tories and one for the Liberals’: Neurologist reprimanded for inappropriate jokes about politics, patients’ tongues

A retired Nova Scotia neurologist is facing a reprimand after making inappropriate jokes to his patients about politics and making sexual innuendos with his patients.
A chat with Dr. Adam Thompson on B.C. physicians’ new four-year agreement

While not all details are quite revealed, there is still much to discuss.
10-year anniversary of MAID in Canada invites love, pain and shame

Opinions are far more divided than they were at the outset. The legal framework has evolved and allowed more people to choose to die in this way while also delaying further planned expansions.
MCC to launch new exam prep resource for just $1

The new resource will a new and unique set of 230 multiple-choice questions, matching the length of the MCCQE.
More is more: 11-year analysis finds dramatic jumps in how many bread and butter tasks family doctors are doing

The average number of patients visits that a family physician sees in a year went up 46.8% from 2011 to 2021. The number of lab tests per year increased nearly 70%, while referrals shot up more than 80%.
Seniors should get annual medication reviews in primary care: new guidelines

Canadian guidelines on screening for potentially inappropriate prescribing in seniors has just two recommendations and doesn't include independent reviews by community pharmacists.
CPSO issues reminder for medical directors of beauty clinics amid cases of unsupervised clinics

In a statement published in the college’s Dialogue publication, the college said medical directors must be the one to assess the patient prior to delegating care to another provider as per the policy on the delegation of controlled acts, unless a clinical exception applies.
Doctors and B.C. government extend labour deal by four years

A joint statement by the B.C. Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC says voting by more than 4,000 doctors on the deal ended Thursday at midnight with almost 92% supporting the deal.