Search

Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... worked for 15 years in BC. As a colorectal surgeon, my practice is predominantly at St. Paul’s Hospital, where ... wait lists, which I’m sure you deal with in your practice. The feeling I got from a lot of people was that ... four kids, your wife has a career, and you have a busy practice and obligations to patients; how are you going to ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD January/February 2024
... who were on the verge of retiring have stayed in practice thanks to the new payment model, and this shift has ... and administrative obligations attached to having a family practice. They also fear not being able to find coverage when ...
Premise / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) January/February 2024
... and graduating MDs want to be specialists, while family practice residency positions go begging, or family physicians ... has always been part of primary care, is required. Medical practice is seen as divided into the science and art of ... health care we family physicians used to excel at, and a practice where we think humans will be irreplaceable. What ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Konia Trouton, MD, CCFP, MPH, FCFP January/February 2024
... and abortion in Canada in 1969. When she began practice, she was motivated to work in these fields; at that ...
Obituaries / BY: Janet Green, MD January/February 2024
... in the office is now considered full-time! He did family practice maternity, emergency room shifts (until we got ... walk-in clinics and locums after he gave up his full-time practice in 2011. He also did joint injections. At Courtenay ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD January/February 2024
... 7 ] Antibiotics are used in raising livestock. This practice accelerates the development of antibiotic-resistant ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2024
... late 1960s and early 1970s, I was asked to explain why my practice profile registered three standard deviations above ... become familiar with pelvic anatomy. It seems this helpful practice has been discontinued. I suspect the reluctance ...
Letters / BY: Rainer Borkenhagen, MD January/February 2024
... to divorce. I was (as was typical) overly committed to my practice, and she had the family burden, to the detriment of ... burden, which entailed me giving up my family practice and working part-time for the next 10 years. This ...
Letters / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD March 2024
... pain tools make this approach possible in a busy medical practice. Pain questionnaires can be used prior to an ...
Obituaries / BY: Al Kallas, MD March 2024
... Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. He opened his medical practice on West Hastings in Burnaby in 1974. He shared a practice with Dr Juergen Rauh during his first years at that ... and caring physician, generous of time and spirit. The practice gradually grew into a five-doctor clinic. He enjoyed ...