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Vancouver family physician Dr. Chung Cheung Ko told the B.C. civil resolutions tribunal he never touched Li Zheng, who had grabbed a piece of paper she mistakenly thought contained her father's information.

The $750 million is to be used for recruitment and retention programs, rural and remote programming and expanding capacity across the system.

The video of her treatment in September 2020 went viral and drew outrage and condemnation across the province and the country.

Gotodoctor.ca, an online portal that connects patients with primary-care providers, will now offer e-prescribing through Infoway's PrescribeIT. 

In a number of schools, courses focused on care for patients from Indigenous communities have become a mandatory part of the curriculum. In some cases, the imperative to do this has come directly from students.

Even as the problem was too much water in much of the state, at least nine hospitals in southwest Florida had the opposite problem.

The changes, which are an update to the National Drug Schedules, affect concentrations up to and including 0.025%. 

Patients were monitored using a scale that measures mental decline and their ability to do daily activities like getting dressed or feeding oneself.