Contributed by Dr. Steven Klassen, Family Physician, Thunder Bay, ON and OntarioMD Peer Leader Recently, I accepted a 70 year old man into my family practice. He presented to our first encounter with nothing but his spouse to aid his recall. I had…
Submitted by Dr. Kevin Samson The 2017 Canadian Guidelines for Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain emphasized the importance of safely minimizing the dose of opioids that patients are being prescribed. The guidelines made it important for me as a primary care provider to…
A national electronic health record for primary care - - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/191/2/E28 The above editorial describes the author’s desire and need for a single national Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in primary care. He speculates that many of our problems in primary care could be solved by such…