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News&Notes / BY: Neil Pollock, MD, October 2014
... a lifesaving procedure, it is a fortune in a country where people live on $1 or $2 a day." Just 72 hours after ... about the mission, I had the money needed--proof that many people care about the desperate situation in Haiti, and a ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... sunny day the following spring and we were hooked. People laughed when we told them we were moving away from ... were really bad, we would chain up our truck and shuttle people up from the main road after they radioed us (there was ... while in the confines of a helicopter. Since most people here live on acreages, the chopper can land in the ...
News&Notes / BY: Benjamin Brzezynski, MA, November 2014
... recommend the following principles: 1.    Separate the people from the problem. 2.    Focus on interests, not ... with a high-level discussion of outcomes (forget about the people). For example, you and your clinic manager might ...
News&Notes / BY: Chris Fraser, MD, January/February 2014
... amazement I hear him thanking me: “Thank you to all the people of Canada. They have shown great leadership in the ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2014
... to make me a customized new stent for my aorta. These good people in Ontario made it fast and shipped it west to my doc ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
... Memorial Hospital, I used open drop diethyl ether to put people to sleep. The older docs sometimes used 1, 2, 3—a ... of raw ether and a dozen amyls.”[ 3 ] Thompson urged people to “buy the ticket, take the ride,”[ 3 ] as he ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
... Seckel thanked all staff at Doctors of BC, commenting that people work hard and do so while enjoying each other’s ...
News&Notes / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2013
... The current abundance of health apps motivates many people to download and use these tools without any guidance ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD October 2013
... work (especially hos-pital work) and our affinity for the people and the country kept us here. Now, at age 60, ...
News&Notes / BY: Dan Small, PhD, MPhil Cantab, January/February 2011
... ethnography published on the equally exotic Nacirema people.[ 1 ] While there is some debate among scholars as to ...