7/8/2024 No one loves filling out administrative forms or dealing with supply issues. I get it. But making the patient pay—and blaming the pharmacist—for elements of collaborative patient care that require a bit of extra paperwork? That’s just not right.
6/16/2024 In the second article in this series on leadership we look at the importance of increasing your visibility by getting involved in advocacy.
4/17/2024 In the first part of a new series on Leadership, Kristen Watt describes the indirect path she took to become a well-known face and voice in pharmacy.
2/7/2024 Funding for services may never be a sustainable business model. What we need is appropriate funding for an adequate number of excellent staff who will raise the level of care for all patients.
1/10/2024 Contrary to how a local physician admonished me, adjusting medication dosage is absolutely within my scope of practice. Besides, I answer to the patient (who is at the centre of all I do) and to the College of Pharmacists, not to physicians.
11/29/2023 Drug shortages are ongoing and the issue is not going away anytime soon. Pharmacists, you may not like what I’m going to say about how they should be managed...
11/1/2023 It’s not expanded scope that has us so burnt out and stressed. It’s corporate pressures to perform, and the unceasing noise, confusion and mixed messaging around what we can and can’t do, and how.
1/2/2023 Pharmacists in Ontario (and soon B.C.) are finally officially being recruited to use our skills to take some pressure off the beleaguered healthcare system—as we have in other Canadian provinces for many years. What's really behind all the pushback from the physician community?
9/21/2022 On Aug. 31, pharmacist and independent community pharmacy owner, Ramzy Shaker was attacked while on his way to work.
8/5/2021 Between information overload on some fronts, lack of knowledge on others, long hours, changing rules and managing these straggler vaccine doses, I'm surviving, not thriving.
3/8/2021 Given just two minutes to share pharmacists' perspective with the country's leader, I had to hone in on what I felt were the most important points for us and our patients.
