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Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... and prescribing incorrectly. The speakers addressed each issue in turn. When it came time to speak to the concerns ... 1-3 ] According to a Canadian study published in 2004, 7.5% of patients experience at least one adverse event ... primary victims of adverse events, but caring physicians may also be deeply affected.[ 4 ] Second victim syndrome, a ...
Premise / BY: Judith Marois, April 2010
Whether to accept gifts from patients is a thorny issue, made even more fraught in the psychiatric context. ... to the physician’s service, significant monetary gifts may imply that the patient is offering the physician a tip. ... among the Canadian provinces that the CMA Code of Ethics (2004) and the CMA Charter for Physicians (1999) are the ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... explicit shaming of physicians. The so-called evaluations may be based on time spent in the doctor’s waiting room, ... appear to be particularly well attended. The bothersome issue is that neither the good nor the shaming comments are ... issue of anonymous comments on that website. Founded in 2004 by John Swapceinski in California, the website gained ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... The Index was published in paper form monthly from 1879 to 2004, suspending publication in occasional years for various ... We can proudly remember that, beginning with the 1993 issue, Canadian Family Physician became one of only 10 family ... the profession and the role of the medical librarian: this may be a shift from librarian as provider of information to ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... brought my attention to an article in the 2 December 2017 issue: “Gay twin may offer an answer to mystery of our sexuality.” The ... and a strained marital relationship. In May of 2004, at age 38, in his home town of Winnipeg, he took his ...