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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 ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2023
... week. I’ve had the privilege to be in the emergency room, occasionally in the delivery suite, in the office, in ... for authentic connections. In the world of social media, being someone’s Facebook friend or following them on ... at times, and that has served me well—in the exam room, managing people, at the community level, or when ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jacob L. Stubbs, BKin May 2019
... We’ve garnered some worldwide attention, so engaging the media and sharing the collective wisdom is also a significant ... your partner can inject you, you can find someone in the room, etc. At OPS we don’t require staff to do any of those ...
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, ...
Beyond Medicine November 2015
... physicians and to the BC Children’s Hospital emergency room for influenza-like illness were well above average ... in the duration of illness and incidence of acute otitis media but increased nausea and vomiting.4 Benefits of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...