Ontario is proposing to further expand pharmacists’ scope of practice by adding to the list of minor ailments they can assess, allowing them to administer more vaccines and order some lab tests.
‘Pharmacists are not doctors,’ OMA says But doctors are pushing back on the scope expansions.
“The bottom line here is that pharmacists are not doctors,” said Dr. Dominik Nowak, president of the Ontario Medical Association. “Doctors are trained for years and thousands of hours to diagnose and treat conditions.”
Pharmacists ordering lab tests (bloodwork) is a pretty radical expansion of their practice
Most pharmacists I’m pretty sure work for private, mostly corporate companies. This is another effort to further privatize healthcare