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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 ...
Premise / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd November 2017
... Hindi. While Mr Kumar’s story had been covered by news media ( Newsweek ,  Time , and a documentary on Discovery ... financial burden, with six people living in a small two-room house all supported by the father’s income of 600 ... hyperconnected world. No smart phones, no TV, no social media. Dr Mathew was stunned there were no computers. One ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... concept of medical pain management. For many years, the media, pharmaceutical industry, special interest groups, ... for many of these patients with visits to the emergency room or walk-in clinics, and continues with endless ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC July/August 2009
... to Victoria! Since arriving here in “God’s waiting room” they have increased their demands by asking to be ... antifungal medications. It received much attention in the media and health magazines in the past. A position paper of ...
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: 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. ...