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Point Counterpoint / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2017
... prolonged dying with poor symptom control has made people even more fearful of the dying process. And society ... which the MAID is provided, because it is well known that people’s desire for hastened death can change over time[ 1 ... a study at a Seattle Cancer Centre[ 2 ] showed that of 114 people who inquired into the Death with Dignity program, ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
... and influenza experts continue to recommend that people get vaccinated against influenza if they are at higher ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD April 2015
... Strategies include attachment mechanisms that connect people with a family physician/primary care provider; ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2014
... to make me a customized new stent for my aorta. These good people in Ontario made it fast and shipped it west to my doc ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
... Memorial Hospital, I used open drop diethyl ether to put people to sleep. The older docs sometimes used 1, 2, 3—a ... of raw ether and a dozen amyls.”[ 3 ] Thompson urged people to “buy the ticket, take the ride,”[ 3 ] as he ...
Back Page / BY: Janny Ke, September 2014
... to sneak in a kiss. Medicine has brought me into some of people’s most excruciating, profound, and beautiful ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... The Ministry of Health estimates that about 176000 people in BC are without a family doctor and actively looking ... Cowichan Valley. In doing so, it was aiming to give more people access to good primary care through a longitudinal ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD October 2013
... work (especially hos-pital work) and our affinity for the people and the country kept us here. Now, at age 60, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, October 2012
... the delivery of mental health care for young people, with FPs becoming more competent in identifying and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2012
... resource (e.g., internal strengths or external people or supports). 4. Have your patients check in regularly ... a week).  5. Encourage your patients to bring support people or family members to appointments to keep those people in the loop and involved. 6. When getting started, ...