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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2022
... The idea is that a patient becomes part of a family practice where they can access primary care providers such as ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) May 2022
... you are never going to see a new privately built family practice in Victoria again.” Nonetheless, recruiting ... Dr Velikovsky and her husband is expected to “build a practice panel from the more elderly and complex patients of ... While such patients have always been part of general practice, they require considerable expertise, patience, and ...
Obituaries / BY: Young Family June 2022
... training at Shaughnessy Hospital. In 1953 he began general practice in Hope, BC, as one of only two doctors in the town, ... his eternal gratification, Archie partnered in his medical practice with his younger brother Drew, and they practised in ... outstanding community service of 45 years of medical practice was recognized by the Canadian Medical Association ...
Letters / BY: Rob Lehman, MD, CCFP, MClSc, FCFP(LM) June 2022
... mental health services. Offer input to divisions of family practice and medical staff hospital associations. Contribute ... a fee-for-service system that encourages a high-volume practice, so spend as little time as possible with each ... the foot-voting will turn back in the direction of family practice, particularly longitudinal comprehensive family ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB June 2022
... there is no incentive for family physicians to work in a practice that provides full-service longitudinal care. First, ... family physicians for the work they did outside of their practice—for example, committee work for the association. ... compensating us for the added costs of running an office practice, over and above what family physicians who don’t ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD June 2022
... family doctors who are empowered by divisions of family practice at the grassroots level. Many don’t realize that ...
Letters / BY: Robert Semeniuk, MD, FRCSC July/August 2022
... so be it. I acquired my licence to perform family practice during my training and worked walk-in clinic shifts ... want. Instead, we need to support the areas of family practice that require help, including remuneration. —Robert ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB July/August 2022
... in certain disciplines are also leaving private practice for settings that do not involve them running an ... In my community, there are no psychiatrists in private practice. They all work in the hospital or mental health ...
Obituaries / BY: Jack and Ruth Albrecht September 2022
... selection and training and served as chief of general practice at Royal Columbian Hospital and as president of the ... an active woodworker at age 97! While still in medical practice, Bill participated in a number of short-term medical ...
Obituaries / BY: David M. Lawson, PhD, RPsych September 2022
... scientific publications. In addition to her busy clinical practice, Lindsay served as medical director of the Medical ... Surgeons of Canada. Following her retirement from hospital practice after 33 years at St. Paul’s Hospital, Lindsay ... and Powell River for her final 3 years of clinical practice. Lindsay’s patients were highly appreciative of ...