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Back Page / BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP September 2008
... the bureaucracy credit for sincere efforts to provide a good and workable system. As individuals, most are doing what ... the money. The biggest untapped source of money? We, the people. We often see references to the need for people to ... unions, doctors, and for-profit insurance companies. This type of innovation will be considered as politically risky ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2008
... replacing our old handwritten records was the fact that I type 10 words a minute, apparently with my tongue hanging out ... Dr Richardson, you’d be surprised; there are lot of old people on Facebook.” I then checked his prostate even ... office at recess, lunch hour, and after school. But the good news is that he works for cookies.” So was the ...
Premise / BY: Michael A. Ross, MD, FRCSC October 2007
... and 11% of men suffer from migraine. MRIs on all these people would bankrupt the system. Anxious patients will ... they leave discouraged, realizing that this is not the type of care they need. Those barely able to leave home are ... put in a plug for the fee, which always does somebody some good. Fearsome authority Hippocrates was born into an age of ...
Premise / BY: Faith E. Hayman, LLB, BA, BEd April 2006
... status, so the ability to work is critical to most people’s financial survival. When health issues interfere ... ‘non-diagnoses’—mean.” The court described the type of evidence which was required as follows: “So there ... under an obligation to adjudicate claims fairly and in good faith. These principles were applied in a disability ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... for medicine. So moving all over the place like that, people always ask, “Was your dad one step ahead of the ... has all the moving done for you? Or to you…  It was good for me. I wasn’t always happy the minute we moved ... my cousins or brothers were sick I enjoyed doing nursing-type things for them. I decided, at some point during high ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Todd Cherniak, LLB September 2005
... the waiting periods are universally too long, with most people not able to obtain timely access to MRI except in the ... professional advice A result that shows no injury is a good result for the claimant. In practically all cases (with ... two. This baseline MRI information will curtail this type of defence and allow each accident to be properly ...
Editorials / BY: Clarissa Wallace, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... speak to many individuals and groups of individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D). I sometimes ask: “What messages were ... these complications are potentially preventable through good control of blood glucose. No wonder the relationship ... In a way it seems pretty straightforward. After all, people with T1D don’t have a metabolic syndrome; they are ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2004
... I enjoy my office days in practice, and the variety of people. I’ve been in practice now for 26 years, so I’ve ... any system is superior in terms of patient outcomes and good medical care, despite what some politicians are saying. ... are all ably representing physicians who choose this type of payment system and style of practice. Our ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC January/February 2003
... the Stikine; Iskut, 80 kilometres south on Highway 37; and Good Hope Lake, 11/2 hours north. For many years, there was ... doctor might work all day in the clinic (a busy day: 18 people), be called out twice during the night, drive to ... eradicate most applicants. It takes a certain personality type to enjoy working in such small centres. Usually it means ...
Clinical Articles / BY: A.J. Macgregor, MD November 2002
... interest, but it is only one of many. In addition, young people believe that in their lives they may have many careers ... for doctors, we have reason to believe that it may not be good for patients. In fairness to residents, we have to ... is not resuscitated. Fragmented, episodic, boutique-type services will hardly meet the needs of a majority of our ...