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Back Page / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, June 2007
... service well past their retirement from active clinical practice and until such time as suitably trained replacements ... his specialty certification he started a consultative practice in Kamloops, where he continued to work until his ... After a rotating internship year at VGH he entered solo practice as a general practitioner in Grand Forks, BC. Jim ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, July/August 2007
... Making the change from 33 years of full-time general practice in Terrace to a totally different job, if even only ... retention and recruitment of rural doctors; the General Practice Services Committee, whose job it is to find ways of ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... way (viz Dr Rachel Remen, professor of family practice, University of San Francisco). I have seen ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) July/August 2007
... be most helpful in addressing these issues in everyday practice. All too often, patients with mental health issues, ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, September 2007
... that threatening? Those of us who work in general medical practice are acutely aware that we have few tools to treat ... created the revolving door of today’s typical medical practice. We cannot afford to be rigid, expounding the fixed ... created them.” — Stephen Malthouse, MD    General Practice, Denman Island Letters Our foe: the fixed idea ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD September 2007
... me once more to the breach (no pun intended). When I began practice at the old Grace Hospital almost 50 years ago ... question or criticism from peers. In the later years of my practice at Richmond Hospital, when making weekend rounds for ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2007
... a lot of money in a program dedicated to making family practice a more attractive career choice for medical ... out of the barn” editorial about the future of family practice. I am at a point in my life when things inevitably ... new government funding initiatives to reenergize family practice and family practice training, in addition to some ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2007
... these would guarantee the demise of my fledging general practice. There were two types of doctors—specialists and ... count on one hand those that have followed me into family practice, and I’ve been in practice for 15 years. Do I really care or am I content to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD September 2007
... welfare, safety of children • Lack of training and/or practice • Patient overload, too many responsibilities  ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC September 2007
... Diseases Society of America has published clinical practice guidelines for the management of cryptococcal ...