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President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD May 2018
... was supported by the Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice and the Rural Coordinating Centre of BC, both of ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG April 2018
... from medical school. That was 47 years ago, and medical practice was … different.  In 1971, the BCMJ was already ... majority of space was taken up with that era’s pressing practice issues: a physician’s take-home income, ... no immediate related correspondence. Many of the tools of practice that we now cannot do without were either ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD April 2018
... the impact of artificial intelligence on certain areas of practice. If computers can do a better job of interpreting ... same procedures? This made me consider my job in general practice, where the undifferentiated patient with a list of ... art, based on science” and stated, “The art of the practice of medicine is to be learned only by experience; ...
Billing Tips / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD April 2018
In 2014 the Patterns of Practice Committee published the following information about ... like to avoid.  —Lorne Verhulst, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Audit red flag: Treating a ...
Letters / BY: Goldis Mitra, MD, CCFP July/August 2018
... Dunne in the May 2018 issue of the BCMJ . I am a new-to-practice community- and hospital-based family physician. ... with first-line infertility testing in the family practice office. Dr Dunne’s article was clear and concise, ...
Billing Tips / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD July/August 2018
... attempts to match the medical inspector with the type of practice undergoing the audit. Having a peer physician ... the profession or generally designated by the Patterns of Practice Committee (POPC). Be supportive of the policies and ... . —Lorne Verhulst, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Why become a medical ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD September 2018
... the Health Professions Act, and as clearly stated in a practice standard (Advertising and Communication with the ...
Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD October 2018
... medical history, biographies, comments about medical practice, and even humor. In contrast to the more pointed ... important repeated messages for care and humanism in the practice of medicine, but also a feel of the writers’ love ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD October 2018
... me of the dom appointments I took part in, in UK general practice. No, not that kind of dom, but the domiciliary ... of locking him up, called the doctor. As a junior in the practice I was delegated to meet the psychiatrist on a ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD November 2018
... of injuries in British Columbia: Applying evidence to practice.” Doctors of BC declined to comment because it ...