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Physician Spotlight / BY: John Pawlovich, MD July/August 2015
... the small farming community of northern Alberta. Medical practice was a tapestry of clinic and hospital time, house ... time. Some might say it was the golden time of general practice. Whatever it was, goosebumps grow on my skin as I ... expressly requested his surgical skills. And his surgical practice was only one element in the package of general ...
Letters / BY: Lorne Brandt, MD, January/February 2015
... town, and me. In our personal care home we had a practice of reviewing medications with the charge nurse every ... or changed. The neighboring town did not have this practice. Not surprisingly, the average number of drugs taken ...
Letters / BY: Mike Marshall, MD, January/February 2015
... just as the overall decline in full-service family practice began when we were told we did not qualify for ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2015
... catastrophic hemorrhage of general practitioners from the practice of obstetrics when there was a political decision ... targets a variety of GPs, including those who are new to practice and want a bit of a confidence boost and ongoing ... from the MC4BC program to apply ( http://gpscbc.ca/family-practice-incentive/maternity-care-bc ). —Shelley Ross, MD ...
Obituaries / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2015
... medical association, blazing the way for the now standard practice of having professional help with the government ... association about negotiations until 1994 when he left his practice to sit as a bencher for the Law Society. He also ...
Obituaries / BY: Robert N. Meek, MD, January/February 2015
... joined Dr Cam Allen and Dr Donald Starr in a partnership practice that is still in place almost 70 years later as the ... teaching students and residents for his entire 27 years of practice.  Dr Watt was an excellent and very fast technical ...
Obituaries / BY: Christopher Morrant, MBBS, January/February 2015
... Livingstone, who gave half a century of his life to family practice. Charles Dickens once said that great men are seldom ... St. Paul’s Hospital for 2 years before choosing family practice in Richmond, where he sometimes cared for several ...
Obituaries / BY: Lawrence Burr, MD, January/February 2015
... in 1977. In Bhopal he became a major influence in the practice of cardiac surgery and the teaching of medical and ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, MB BCh BAO March 2015
... article promoting a living and local method of family practice review and quality improvement [ BCMJ ... Re: Measuring and improving quality of care in family practice ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS March 2015
... of perfect happiness? A rewarding and inspiring day in my practice followed by an epic kiteboarding session on one of ... patients share? Longevity. My Doctors of BC annual practice profile reminds me that my average patient is now in ...