Beta Therapeutics isn't the first in the province to go this route. A family physician at another clinic, Perpetual Health Centre, is charging new patients $125 a month starting Nov. 1.
The scheme was tied to the Hope Clinic and involved prescribing oxycodone and other controlled substances that weren't for legitimate medical purposes from 2010 to 2015.
Many in extra vulnerable patient cohorts, like those with heart disease and diabetes, don't realize they're at elevated risk of experiencing severe disease. What can doctors and pharmacists do to help?
The pharmacist in charge's failures resulted in, among other things, a relief pharmacist scrambling to future out how to obtain an opioid antagonist maintenance treatment permit while patients waited at the pharmacy for the treatment.
The province said bivalent vaccine appointments could be booked as of Monday morning through its online booking system, with the first appointments also available the same day.
