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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD December 2013
... me. We didn’t let her down; she died as she wished, at home. I lightened my load by finding one “not dead yet ... and chatting to aerial spirits in a comfortable nursing home.  Then back to melancholy. Removing their names and ... are extinguished in microseconds?  Will we?  Back Page Bring out your dead ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC July/August 2012
... ability to allow anticipated natural deaths to occur at home, in hospice, and in residential care under the care of ... locally for immediate use. For more information, see page 301, “Using methadone for pain: Practice points.” ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, October 2011
... subacute unit) could be beneficial or whether a discharge home with added formal home supports is warranted.  Geriatric patients take longer ... 6 ] It is available on the Resources and Publications page of the CCSMH website ( www.ccsmh.ca ) along with a guide ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC January/February 2010
... treating mild DKA in reliable patients with known T1D at home or as outpatients.   The majority of children with ... IV solutions, the BCCH DKA Toolkit has a recipes page that explains how to prepare these using commercially ... insulin pumps are trained to check themselves using a home monitor to detect early ketones associated with ...
Back Page / BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP September 2008
... insurance agency protecting us from high costs.  As with home or car insurance, a deductible amount would provide for ... a government that has the insight and the courage. Back Page The medicare muddle: Finding a way out ...