HSCI 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prescription Drug, Canada Health Act, Cinchona
28 Nov 2017
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Says our health system is nice but not helpful. Ubc students learn to care for indigenous people by understanding racists legacy. Health minister dix willing to consider alternate payment to encourage doctors to work in er. From fee to service to alternative payment plan or even retainers. Needs injectable treatment in oc crisis fight. Most for physicians, then hospitals, then prescription drugs. According to a 2015 angus reid poll c. Latter half of the 19th century saw identification of. A bit of history (regulation and financing: cocaine from coca leaves, salicylic acid form willow bark, quinine from cinchona bark, digitalis from foxglove, opiates from opium poppy. Parallel developments in chemistry led to ability to synthesize drugs. Emergence of germ theory followed by advances in antibiotics post-wwi to wwii. Proprietary or patent medicine act (1909: beginning of efforts to protect the public against drugs administered without medical supervision.
