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Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD June 2017
... drips on a tin roof at night, interrupting sleep. The 30-page provincial application for persons with disabilities is ... are pursuing the adoption of the Patient Medical Home. Ambitious doctors or civil servants will not advance ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanda Hill, MBChB, FRCPC March 2017
... making is summarized in the  Figure  on the following page. The process begins with an evaluation of frailty and ... and postoperative complication, discharge to nursing home, and length of hospital stay with reasonable predictive ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... of my colleagues who had the weekend off. There was a page over the hospital intercom—“Dr Ruddiman to the ... considering the empathy that was generated in our home I’m disappointed in myself when I think back. Having ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... allows health authorities to provide equipment in the home when appropriate. While such benefits support patients ... community, the team may consist of the family physician, home care nurse, pharmacist, and neighbors. Other centres may ... Care Benefits: www.esdc.gc.ca/en/ei/compassionate/index.page Source of information about benefits available to ...
Back Page / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2015
... with his comrades in the Fox and Hounds, he brought them home to supper, beer bubbles clinging to his magnificent ... the froth that once adorned it at the Fox and Hounds. Back Page The magnificent moustache ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... emerged and medical practice began to shift from home to office and hospital. Internal medicine and general ... of BC Guide to Fees  to a 1950s version with a one-page wee index,[ 2 ] the differences are glaring. It’s like ...
Back Page / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, October 2014
... a minor procedure like pushing a trochar trembling home or wrestling with a drip. I asked him how he maintained ... tolerate themselves enough to want to live and give. Back Page The enemy within ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC January/February 2014
... [Dr Terwiel died 4 January 2014; see the article on  page 36 . —ED] It is in this context that I reviewed the ... Shot by a jealous husband. •    In my bed at home. •    Quickly. •    Instantly, no pain or ...
Back Page / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2014
... avoid the London Blitz, which had already shattered their home, fortunately without casualties. They knew this was the ... boy was affected. Those affected were forbidden to travel home by train when the term ended, lest they infect the ... minor, would have affected his life and career. Back Page Lest we forget ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... ventricular tachycardia. His family doctor discussed the home “do not attempt to resuscitate” (DNAR) order, but ... developed and transmitted to the patient’s doctors and home care team. Multiple visits are often required to control ... The authors corrected an error that appeared on page 227, paragraph 1, line 12 in the original article ...