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Letters / BY: Thomas J. DeMarco, MD, June 2024
... primary care [ BCMJ 2024;66:14-15] . I have been in family practice for 40 years. I have been on call for most of that ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... physicians willing to start or remain in a longitudinal practice. Slow medicine originated in Italy (after the slow ... experimenting with implementing the approach in my own practice. I’ve scheduled more time with patients, as well ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Adrian Marcuzzi, BHSc May 2024
... to total knee arthroplasty; highlight concerns about the practice; and advise against opioid use in this patient ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... program has instilled the importance of reflective practice through regular portfolio sessions, which take the ... journaling exercises on difficult experiences in clinical practice followed by group debriefs. However, these mostly ...
Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM June 2024
... optimization have been well established in literature and practice since 2000. Preoperative clinics are now mainstream ... imperative to repair the future by changing our present practice. Competing interests Dr Zentner is founder of the ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2024
After a few years in practice, I witnessed some of my older colleagues give up ... a day off during the week, and I still do. Starting out in practice is nerve-racking. The worries are endless. The ... every new patient who walked through my door into my practice. That saved me a lot of headaches and is a pearl I ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD May 2024
... with an apology: “Sorry, but can I . . . ?” This practice seems ingrained in our culture. Reflecting on when I ... what they find to be the most rewarding part of family practice, many tell me it is the longitudinal nature of the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD January/February 2024
... Medical Services, WorkSafeBC —Belden Wong, MBA Director, Practice and Quality Support Services, WorkSafeBC For more ...