Polls

With Omicron and rising COVID-19 numbers, doctors face decisions in their personal lives over the holidays and whether they plan to have gatherings.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on healthcare workers—and that obviously causes fatigue and stress. Take our poll of your colleagues.

Take our weekly poll and see what your colleagues are saying about this question.

The start of September saw Ontario’s roughly 1,700 optometrists withdraw services covered by the province’s health plan to protest the government’s refusal to increase insurance payments to at least cover the cost of providing services.

Ontario recently announced that people with COVID-19 symptoms will be able to get a rapid test performed in a pharmacy.

Pharmacists have been among the hardest-working heroes throughout this pandemic. In a recent poll, 60% per cent of pharmacists told us they were operating at less-than-optimal staffing levels and 21% said they’re actively seeking staff at this time.

Ensuring proper licensure can be a headache for physicians from from one province or territory to another. 

Based on your understanding of the science and what you are seeing among your patients, take our weekly poll on this topic.