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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD January/February 2013
Since its first meeting in January 2003, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC), a joint committee of the ... health system challenges. Through initiatives such as the Practice Support Program, the Divisions of Family Practice, and the Full-Service Family Practice Incentive ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2013
... he returned to Vancouver and resumed an active clinical practice.  George was an avid outdoorsman, enjoying many of ...
Obituaries / BY: S.C. Naiman, MD, January/February 2013
... Subsequently the three established a joint office for the practice of nephrology and internal medicine, which continued ... for patient care and concern. During his years of practice Henry had limited time for outside interests but ... in many ways analogous to that which he applied to the practice of medicine, demonstrating again that the best ...
Obituaries / BY: Linda J. Warren, MD, January/February 2013
... in New York, he returned home to Vancouver to set up practice in family medicine—his life’s goal. To his ... Goldwaterian tendencies?” During those early years in practice, he worked tirelessly to hold our class together and ... medical staff and board member at VGH, and chief of family practice at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s ...
Obituaries / BY: Ellen Wiebe, MD, January/February 2013
... memory of every patient. There was no one to take over his practice, so, before he retired, he took the time and energy ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, March 2013
... for patients and physicians.  In September 2011 the Practice Support Program (PSP), a joint initiative of the BC ... things from the module that they had incorporated in their practice.  More broadly, a large majority of GP participants ... the EOL module had helped them: •    Improve their practice. •    Improve patient care. •    Increase ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2013
... as of 1 April on two levels: to divisions of family practice to begin the work of increasing primary care ... and found that the more patients go to the same family practice, the lower the overall annual cost to the health ... a family doctor and actively looking for one. The General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) began work on this issue ...
Obituaries / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD July/August 2013
... He was considered one of them. During his years in practice in England and Canada, he delivered approximately 10 ... town and First Nations community over the lifetime of his practice. The community hall was filled to capacity and the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD September 2013
... in the number of patients who visit the same family practice can lower the overall annual cost to the health care ... annually).[ 2 ] To address these issues, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC)—a joint committee of the ... 2013 and is available to both local divisions of family practice and individual FPs in communities without a ...
Obituaries / BY: Archie D. Young, MD, October 2013
... and Vancouver General Hospital, he entered general practice in Chilliwack in 1961, forming a partnership with ... older brother Archie, and eventually expanding to a group practice of five doctors.  The benefits of a group practice allowed Drew the ability to pursue his interest in ...