Doctor behind cross-border rush for Ozempic in B.C. is suspended in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons has suspended a doctor it says was responsible for thousands of prescriptions of the diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic that were mailed to Americans by two British Columbia pharmacies.
The Canadian Press is not naming the doctor, who did not respond to requests for comment to after-hours phone calls. He said B.C.’s College of Pharmacists wrote in a letter that the two pharmacies had filled more than 17,000 prescriptions for semaglutide, the non-brand name for Ozempic, from December 2022 to February 2023.
Grant said it’s incumbent on doctors licensed in Nova Scotia to uphold proper prescription practices “whether the care is delivered in-person or by way of virtual medicine.” Dix said that typically only a small percentage of prescriptions in B.C. get filled for non-residents, but fears of shortages in the province ramped up when it was found upwards of 15 per cent of Ozempic prescriptions were going across the border.
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