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MDs To Be / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD October 2019
In 2014 the BC Ministry of Health’s report, “Setting Priorities for the BC Health System,” outlined information management and ... medical records (EMRs) to enter or retrieve patient notes, an increase from 26% in 2007.[ 4 ] More recently, the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Justin Burton, MSc, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 January/February 2018
... boat from Iquitos in northeastern Peru. The CSSC provides health care and support services to approximately 15 000 ... the Angels from Quebec took on the tasks of education and health care in the region between 1951 and 1991 as ... fecal smear), nor did I understand the various shorthand notes and synonyms for Spanish descriptions. These would soon ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, June 2015
... hopefully have better answers for him then. I make some notes as I walk to the intensive care unit to see a patient I ... Many thanks to all the physicians, nurses, and allied health care and medical program support staff involved in the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Joshua Lai, BSc, January/February 2013
... patient. But she was already recording the pressure in her notes. “Aren’t you going to check it too?” I asked, ... embarrassed, but didn’t want that to compromise Bob’s health; the dilemma burned in my throat. But before I could ...
MDs To Be / BY: Joanne Bleackley, BSc, October 2013
... flip through the history, lab values, orders, and surgery notes, my stomach gives a loud growl. Great. An-other ... haul. We were imagining countless hours trapped in the health records department. However, as we continued with the ... rec-ord, including the doctor’s orders, the nurse’s notes, and the pathology report. Soon, our process became ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... provincial legislature, and champion of publicly funded health insurance. Upon his death in 1939 he was called a ... a cultural and trading centre of the central coast. His notes on the artifacts he collected (now in the Royal Ontario ... He taught me how important team work was in the health professions, and that aging is not a disease. He ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... disease in a popular textbook, Dr Pestana’s Surgery Notes , printed in 2020. According to the textbook, the ... of Cushing as a very humane physician).  Cushing’s health declined in the last 20 years of his life. He had ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... name. We were responsible for the history and follow-up notes, reaching out for consultations when needed, calling ... patient and family confusion about which doctor or which health professional is or was in charge during a hospital ... and the lack of fiscal compensation inherent in various health care systems may be yet other factors in focusing on ...
Blog / BY: Linda Hawker, MD
... Conference of Deputy Ministers of Health due to concerns with health care spending, postulated that rising health care ... and retrieving records. Thick charts stuffed with clinic notes, test results, forms, and consultants’ letters gave ...