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
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
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
Want to catch up on other articles from this series? A recent article in the Atlantic proclaimed that the First Year in AI College Ended
Want to catch up on other articles from this series? In my practice as a community pharmacist, I am in a unique position to witness
A few months back, I was dispensing an antibiotic for a young child. I was counselling the child’s Father, who happened to be a family
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