Travelling with Toddlers. Dedicated to my good friend, GPS. Safe travels! Winter is almost here, which means two things. Everyone is shopping for flights and
Incentives, trade-offs and changing the game. Healthcare, like any business or industry, is driven by incentives. In pharmacy, the business model is volume-based. You charge
Lifelong subscriptions, futures trading and deprescribing. As a pharmacist, one of the most common questions I receive from my patients is centred around duration of
Summer 2023 Edition. Welcome to the second edition of LNL. Some of the parents I see frequently at the pediatric clinic gave me good feedback
Brace for impact. In my home province of Ontario, we are facing a crisis in primary care. A few statistics from the Ontario Medical Association’s
A balanced equation for health. In sports, athletes switch teams all the time. My beloved Toronto Raptors, lost their best player in franchise history, Kawhi
A Case Study Prescribing cascades occur when a medicine causes a side effect that gets misdiagnosed as a new condition. A new prescription medicine is
Married to Medicines. Legacy prescribing is a common term in the world of deprescribing. It occurs when drugs should be prescribed for an intermediate-term (longer than
PediatRX is a series on the blog dedicated to providing tricks, tips and my very own “prescription guidelines” for parents on how to survive and
Lemons, community pharmacy and a race to the bottom. A colleague of mine (s/o WS) recently introduced me to an economic concept called the “Market
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