by CMAJ News | Apr 18, 2019 | archive, recaps, Roger Collier
Roger Collier | CMAJ | April 18, 2019 Allowing private clinics to obtain public coverage for private medical services via extra-billing and user fees would “turn back the clock” on equitable health care access in Canada, argued the lawyer for the Attorney General of...
by CMAJ News | Apr 18, 2019 | archive, Caroline Mercer, homepage
Education needed — for doctors and patients — to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions Caroline Mercer | Toronto | April 18, 2019 Research indicates that 20%–40% of antibiotics are prescribed inappropriately. The Chief Medical Officer of England recently...
by CMAJ News | Apr 17, 2019 | archive, featured, Wendy Glauser
Is it ethical to recruit doctors from countries with physician shortages? Wendy Glauser | Toronto | April 17, 2019 To help address its physician shortage, Nova Scotia is recruiting doctors in the UK. As Nova Scotia looks to the United Kingdom for doctors, and Britain...
by CMAJ News | Apr 16, 2019 | archive, homepage, Lauren Vogel
Canada’s residency mismatch shrinking but still “alarming” Lauren Vogel | CMAJ | April 16, 2019 Canada is still a long way from fixing its residency mismatch despite a drop in unmatched graduates. More Canadian medical graduates secured residency positions in the...
by CMAJ News | Apr 12, 2019 | archive, Lauren Vogel, recaps
Lauren Vogel | CMAJ | April 12, 2019 The Supreme Court refused an appeal from the Ontario Medical Association and other physician groups to keep the names of top-billing doctors private. Ontario’s top court previously ruled that names and financial details disclosed...
