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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2009
... is best for the patient. When I first started my general practice, I decided I would not see pharmaceutical detailers ... up the tab for lunches and food at rounds and talks. This practice continues into our working lives. Who hasn’t ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG March 2009
... answers, and a feeling that little will change in your practice as a result of attending. In fact, after decades of ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, March 2009
... will be best for you. Dr Andre van Wyk, of Fort Family Practice in Fort Langley, knows you have to both look in ... be easily configured to perform relevant searches in your practice to find gaps in care for diabetics, Pap smears, and ... do not want surprises later. For example, if you are in a practice setting that may require a non-standard pricing ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD April 2009
... reasonably be allowed some expansion of their scope of practice. I argued that fighting this legislation would not ... review by the Health Professions Council of the scopes of practice of each regulated health profession concluded that ... and therapeutic advances, so do standards for clinical practice.” It is unclear whether a rational analysis ever ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2009
... (e-referrals). In recent years specialists in private practice have tended to be more mobile than family ... really well and cost effectively through a community-of-practice approach.” Availability of electronic results ... Harries, leader of the South Okanagan EMR Community of Practice, has found that “the specialists in our community ...
Back Page June 2009
... responsibility.” Presentation topics in this Family Practice Refresher included travel and diving medicine, adult ...
Editorials / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD July/August 2009
... to us worked in both systems (the private part of his practice centred on tourists with altitude sickness and other ... is available only to those with the ability to pay, and practice in the private system requires some training ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, July/August 2009
... can save the day. When it came time to open their own practice in Langley in 2003, Drs Leo and Flora Wong, both ... to electronic. Then, in 2007, Dr Young Suh joined the practice. He had worked in a clinic where most of the ... all of Young’s charts. Today the boxes are gone and the practice is again paperless. For Leo, the major advantage of ...
Back Page / BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP, September 2009
... drifts off to sleep.  I think of these experiences in my practice as I deliver bad news, or when I am there for ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS October 2009
... S.O.B. Nowadays, when speaking to my colleagues still in practice, they complain of being adrift in regulations, ...