Mostly, I get them by fax or snail mail, as my daughter calls it. Occasionally our college will promulgate an alert it has received, but it's very variable.
The other problem I have is that when the alert arrives it doesn't mean anything to me, necessarily. Take, for example, the tragic case of that young lady, Vanessa, who had cisapride. That's a drug I used quite a lot. I can vividly remember getting a report from Health Canada that said it was associated with EKG abnormalities. That's all it said. What that meant to me is that if you had a girl of her age who had EKG abnormalities like that, you'd go look to see if she was on the medication, not that if you leave this girl on medication like that she's going to die, or if you have a girl of this age on this medication, make sure they have an EKG. That never happened.
I'm sorry, I went on a bit.