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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD January/February 2017
... medical home? A patient medical home is a longitudinal GP practice in which doctors are supported to practise with the ... to additional health care services provided outside of the practice. By working within their practice and networking with other physicians and health care ...
Letters / BY: Robert Love, MD January/February 2017
Many family practice colleagues have been complaining of the increased ...
Letters / BY: John Sehmer, MD March 2017
... Dr Keith White, chair of the Doctors of BC Patterns of Practice Committee, quotes the College guideline on access to ... public through excellence and professionalism in medical practice.” The College appears unconcerned about the ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD March 2017
... upfront investment required when a new patient joins a practice, but must look to Doctors of BC and the Medical ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2017
... doctors in caring for patients with chronic pain.   The Practice Support Program (PSP) Pain Management module One of ... and resources to patients.  Divisions of Family Practice resources Divisions around the province have created ... Surgeons of BC’s Methadone and Buprenorphine: Clinical Practice Guideline for Opioid Use Disorder[ 5 ] as the ...
Letters / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD April 2017
After 43 years in the trenches of general practice, I applaud the fortitude and wisdom of the Pemberton ... requests for chart copies and reports (the bane of practice!), stringent opiate-prescribing guidelines, and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou May 2017
... and initiatives currently being led by divisions of family practice. One example is North Peace Division’s team-based ... created when 16 of the community’s physicians left practice in 2013 and 2014, leaving 23 344 patients without ... the North Peace Primary Care Clinic, Fort St. John Family Practice Associates, and ABC Medical Clinic. Community and ...
Letters / BY: Brady Bouchard, CCFP May 2017
... also states that the process “is not [meant] to restrict practice.” If not, then what is the goal? A quick look ... various privileging documents will show that restricting practice is exactly what is intended—if you don’t have ...
Letters / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD May 2017
... quote. —Brenda Hefford, MD Executive Director, Community Practice, Quality, and Integration Letters Re: The patient ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou June 2017
... the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s clinical practice guidelines for opioid prescribing[ 1 ] have inspired ... local and provincial levels.[ 2 ]  Divisions of family practice have been at the forefront of developing many of ... is a help line developed by the Nanaimo Division of Family Practice to support physicians who have questions about ...