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Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... something I hadn’t seen before in 28 years of practice, or something that other emerg docs on shift at the ... if we could better communicate the work of the General Practice Services Committee, Shared Care Committee and Specialist Services Committee so that their best practice recommendations would be adopted across the ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... What made you interested in switching from private practice into public service? A combination of factors. I’d ... lots of challenges, of course. I think any professional practice has ongoing challenges to it. But I’d done that ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2012
... wasted a minimum of 2 years. Many of them have been out of practice for 10 years, which is way too long. There needs to ... or an ophthalmologist. The division of family practice had a party for the graduates and that was the deciding factor; they wooed me in. My practice was always half full-service family practice and ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2011
... there were too many balls to juggle, especially with my practice, but the more I taught the more I liked it. I used ... day for you look like? When I was at the height of my practice, at my busiest time, my day would start at 6 a.m. I ... been doing it? I’ve been doing it since earlier in my practice and I continue; I’m going to continue once my BCMA ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2011
... was to be­come a very successful 22-year period in the practice of family medicine.  Those early days were, to many, the “golden era” of modern medical practice in BC. Vancouver General Hospital was a complex ... suffer.  Not only did Mark immerse himself in clinical practice in those early years, including leadership roles at ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Diana June King, March 2010
... a mutual friend, Don met Dr Adam Waldie, who had a family practice on 10th Avenue at Discovery and who was looking for ... five of the happiest years of his life—in general practice. Don always spoke fondly of those ... thing to do.”  It was during those years in family practice that Don met Michael Smith, who played a pivotal ...
Interviews December 2010
... became a certificant of the CFPC in 1982. His scope of practice extends beyond the spectrum of office and hospital ... Columbia, where he teaches medical students, family practice residents, and midwives.  Dr Wilson is highly ... role in helping establish the Vancouver Family Practice Maternity Service (FPMS), a group of dedicated ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, May 2010
... Importantly, this allows us to totally integrate our practice on a continuum from the community to the acute care ... principles of providing community service around a medical practice model. I hope it will continue to provide a strong ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, March 2010
... . Drivers’ medical examinations Physicians in active practice, particularly general practitioners, are presented ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, May 2010
... evolves, more em­phasis is being placed on evidence-based practice. Gone are the days when you could see an order for ...