Original broadcast date: September 27, 2009

This week the Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that it has plans to create Nurse Practitioner-led clinics and to allow pharmacists to prescribe certain medications. Should pharmacists prescribe medication without a doctor’s prescription and should nurse practitioners lead Ontario’s health teams? That is a question posed by the Chair of the Section on General & Family Practice at the Ontario Medical Association.

• Dr. David Bridgeo, MD, CCFP Windsor Family Physician and Chair, Section on General & Family Practice at the Ontario Medical Association

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