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Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... with in your practice. The feeling I got from a lot of people was that they were at their wits’ end, there was no ... Over 1 week, I transitioned to thinking this might be a good idea given the state we’re in, and over the past year, ... in your career? Balance is difficult to figure out in our type of life, right? As physicians we’re pulled in many ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... grew up with. There was a great sense of community, great people. We have always had lovely neighbors. Where’s your ... all doctors, I feel like it’s the principles of really good medicine that save lives. We need to go back to ... they’re wrong, and their failures. There are a lot of type-A people and we want control. I would admit it; it just ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... around for CARMS interviews, so I had to explain that to people. But I think people could see I was genuinely ... profession. During this pandemic we’ve learned that the type of leadership doctors provide is needed now more than ... different interests effectively? You have to be a good listener in this job. I feel that my job is to be the ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2017
... in the mold of an old-style (now extinct) Churchillian type of politician. He was determined to fulfill promises ... department’s scarce resources with highly intelligent people, such as professors of mathematics, physics, ... put the Vancouver Aquarium on the world map. Over 20 000 people came to see the whale (matching the record crowd that ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... very active embassies in the UK at that time, recruiting people to bring their talent, come overseas, build a new ... on South Africa was that the embassy staff did a really good job promoting the fact that if you came to South Africa ... who can continue to support patients when they need that type of care most, but we’re now at a place where, because ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... house I found that knowing how to cook attracted other people. And I really enjoyed the outcome of it. I've got a full complement of good knives, I make my own hot sauce, I make my own bitters. ... same way we used to--we don't have enough providers of any type to keep doing the same thing. So we have to work ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... for medicine. So moving all over the place like that, people always ask, “Was your dad one step ahead of the ... has all the moving done for you? Or to you…  It was good for me. I wasn’t always happy the minute we moved ... my cousins or brothers were sick I enjoyed doing nursing-type things for them. I decided, at some point during high ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2004
... I enjoy my office days in practice, and the variety of people. I’ve been in practice now for 26 years, so I’ve ... any system is superior in terms of patient outcomes and good medical care, despite what some politicians are saying. ... are all ably representing physicians who choose this type of payment system and style of practice. Our ...