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Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2023
... patients, RCMP, injured workers, and certain others. At a media scrum, BC’s health minister celebrated the ... pathway to specialist referral is through the emergency room. Specialists are stressed and demoralized by the need to ... with primary care issues but no FP flock to the emergency room, where long waits, unfamiliar faces, excessive labs, and ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... if they use the same platform. Handwritten emergency room notes arrive by mail. Requests for health care services ... give up some of this right daily to interact on social media. I take a chance that my banking or personal data will ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2017
... decided it’s time we educate ourselves about social media. I think pretty much all of you are familiar with ... list is by no means exhaustive. There are many more social media platforms out there, and by the time this is published ... Imagine the look on their faces when you enter the room and state, “Oh snap, when you tumble those tweets, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2012
... control measures. In early March this letter reached the media and it garnered significant interest.  In response the ... issues? Do they know that men and women sharing a room separated by a curtain is now the norm? Are they aware ... workload. But would you want to be a patient in a four-bed room on a general medical ward at your local hospital?  I ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD October 2009
... the severity of this year’s flu season might be, the media has perpetuated the H1N1 hype to such a degree that we ... should be made available at the entrance to the waiting room with a sign explaining that patients who arrive with ... patients with flu symptoms. Perhaps segregate your waiting room, if possible, or have patients with flu symptoms ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2008
... detail people, collegial conversations in the OR change room, and an occasional weekend conference.  On Monday ... pertinence of scientific publication, the role of print media, the hierarchy of evidence, the definition of evidence ... I’ve often wondered (quietly to myself in a very dark room) why no one has ever suggested that I should quit. ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2008
... destroyer/Darth Vader of health care, the elephant in the room, Dr Profit, and some others that I cannot put into ... a reality check for the public, politicians, and the media. For the European Consumer Powerhouse to rank Canadian ... Canadian system. —BD Editorials Medicine, the media, and politics ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, October 2007
... paper A Prescription for Quality. Each garnered a lot of media and member response. Following this was the CMA’s ... maneuver between the chickens in the open-walled emergency room. The suture used looked like 00 green nylon in large ...
Editorials / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD September 2006
... people in British Columbia and Canada with his very public media presence chronicling his challenges in dealing with ... over broken glass for the opportunity to be in the same room as Bill Clinton and Bill Gates. Their combined political ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD June 2005
... profession. I have had many interesting and stimulating media interviews concerning the sustainability of our ... experienced by our patients. Waiting times, emergency room chaos, lack of sufficient acute care hospital beds, ... I attempted to improve our image with the public and the media as well as converse with government in an attempt to ...