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News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... sunny day the following spring and we were hooked. People laughed when we told them we were moving away from ... were really bad, we would chain up our truck and shuttle people up from the main road after they radioed us (there was ... while in the confines of a helicopter. Since most people here live on acreages, the chopper can land in the ...
News&Notes / BY: Chris Fraser, MD, January/February 2014
... amazement I hear him thanking me: “Thank you to all the people of Canada. They have shown great leadership in the ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
... Seckel thanked all staff at Doctors of BC, commenting that people work hard and do so while enjoying each other’s ...
News&Notes / BY: Neil Pollock, MD, October 2014
... a lifesaving procedure, it is a fortune in a country where people live on $1 or $2 a day." Just 72 hours after ... about the mission, I had the money needed--proof that many people care about the desperate situation in Haiti, and a ...
News&Notes / BY: Benjamin Brzezynski, MA, November 2014
... recommend the following principles: 1.    Separate the people from the problem. 2.    Focus on interests, not ... with a high-level discussion of outcomes (forget about the people). For example, you and your clinic manager might ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... death in Ontario in 2004 was estimated at 27.2 per million people, which is more than 3 times that of HIV (9 per ...
Premise / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2014
... preventive care and therapeutic work is designed to enable people to live fulfilling lives for longer. This practice ... in Canadian hospitals, this one was about 50% occupied by people awaiting placement in long-term care facilities. The prospect of becoming one of those people horrified her. As she put it, “that is not living, ...
Premise / BY: Margaret Reveley, November 2014
... their patients? What are the hidden dangers in untrained people like me even knowing what a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty ... When we start to see doctors’ waiting rooms filled with people holding computer printouts in their hands then we may ...
Premise / BY: Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD, FRCGP, December 2014
... is equivalent to 30% of the available drugs on the market. People go to their family doctor with an average of four symptoms, and people with multiple diseases are now the norm.[ 12 ] Given ...