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Letters / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP November 2023
As a family physician in practice in BC for 35 years, it is nice to see that our ... 24/7 access to the patients registered in a particular practice. They need to have enough members that there is no ...
Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP November 2023
... nurses, and other providers best suited to that practice, location, and population. Patient volume and ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD December 2023
... sponsored by health authorities, divisions of family practice, Doctors of BC, and the Ministry of Health to ... that is soon to sever us from the long-serving autonomy of practice that we fought so hard to preserve over time. ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2023
... to know. I have the privilege to teach a course with the Practice Ready Assessment International Medical Graduate ... with you in your career? I’ve been practising family practice since 2005, which feels like both a long time and a ... and involved intimately in the longitudinal family practice model. I think that model and the opportunity to ...
Letters / BY: Marko Yurkovich, MD, CCFP December 2023
... based on my experience as a family physician with years of practice in primary care, gaining access to a ...
Letters / BY: Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, CRCSC January/February 2023
... that year! Later, when the two of us were both in practice at VGH, he gave anesthetics for my patients. He was ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC October 2022
... regarding informed consent for gender dysphoria. Clinical practice and informed consent must acknowledge less invasive, ...
Letters / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC April 2022
... published in the journal [ BCMJ 2021;63:383-387 ]. The practice at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals is to ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD October 2022
... recently (for a price higher than the $31 average family practice fee) I was thinking about Dr David Chapman’s ... overheads have become huge. To function properly, a family practice needs a secretary, nurse, and office manager. Their ... service item, with a charge of well over $100/hour. Family practice is an expensive business, but paying for those costs ...
Letters / BY: Rob Lehman, MD, CCFP, MClSc, FCFP(LM) June 2022
... mental health services. Offer input to divisions of family practice and medical staff hospital associations. Contribute ... a fee-for-service system that encourages a high-volume practice, so spend as little time as possible with each ... the foot-voting will turn back in the direction of family practice, particularly longitudinal comprehensive family ...