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Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... pace and variety of cases handled by a GP give general practice an addictive quality. After three decades, I am ... No doubt he represents the tip of the iceberg in my practice. This man will require close follow-up for renal, ... from our vocabulary. Fortunately my list of personal practice exceptions still remains at two. Competing interests ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Dan McCarthy, MD January/February 2008
... the Complex Care Fee introduced last spring, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) has revised the fee. ... introduced by the GPSC as part of its Full Service Family Practice Incentive Program. Altogether these incentives are ... one piece of the GPSC’s overall strategy for supporting practice change by GPs and achieving comprehensive renewal of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD March 2008
... mental health initiative launched by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) 1 January 2008. “The ... or by other medical professionals directly under the GP or practice group’s supervision (e.g., MOA or office nurse), ... initiative fees are payable to the general practitioner or practice group that accepts the role of being “most ...
Obituaries / BY: Archie Young, MDCM, March 2008
... of internship in Toronto, he went west to enter general practice in Youbou, Vancouver Island, where he stayed for 2 ... he completed in 1954, then entered his general surgical practice in Chilliwack, where he remained until his ...
Obituaries / BY: Garson Romalis, MD, March 2008
... dissolved after 31 years, Claude joined Dr Henry Woo in practice. Claude was on the active staff of the Vancouver ... and genealogy, while always running a very active clinical practice.  One of the highlights of his life was the year ... He continued to commute to Vancouver and work in his practice until his late sixties, when he slowed down and ...
Obituaries / BY: Guy Winch, MBChB March 2008
... in North Vancouver where he first established a general practice. He began his career in anesthesia first as a general practitioner, but later in 1956 left his practice to take further training, qualifying as a specialist ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2008
... visits—underlines the urgency of efforts by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) to support BC’s family physicians. “In modern family practice, the monitoring of chronic ailments is more ... pace with the changing nature of their work, the GPSC’s Practice Support Program has developed a chronic disease ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephan F. van Eeden, MD, PhD, FRCP, April 2008
... available in the community. A recent study in 12 family practice groups demonstrated that spirometry testing can be incorporated into a family medicine practice with acceptable levels of technical adequacy and ...
Obituaries / BY: Eileen Cambon, MD, May 2008
... enabled them to pass the LMCC ex­ams. They opened a busy practice that they ran until 1993. The van Nordens were ...
Obituaries / BY: J. Patrick McConkey, MD, May 2008
... returned to Vancouver with a new bride in 1952 and began practice with Dr A.S. McConkey (Mac)—a partnership that ...