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Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
... family physician with a focus on geriatric general practice. A last-minute decision to pursue medicine led Dr ... where after 2 decades of satisfying work running his practice he’s also in a role that fulfills everything else ... these people are cool!   Having spent 27 years in general practice, 23 of them in Vancouver, how have you seen primary ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... began in 1995, including 10 years on the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) and 8 years as its ... Australia, which is when I worked in Cairns doing family practice and worked in the Cairns-based hospital. Then we ... time. We did so many fantastic things to improve family practice. It was inspirational to be there. Are there any ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... something I hadn’t seen before in 28 years of practice, or something that other emerg docs on shift at the ... if we could better communicate the work of the General Practice Services Committee, Shared Care Committee and Specialist Services Committee so that their best practice recommendations would be adopted across the ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... What made you interested in switching from private practice into public service? A combination of factors. I’d ... lots of challenges, of course. I think any professional practice has ongoing challenges to it. But I’d done that ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2012
... wasted a minimum of 2 years. Many of them have been out of practice for 10 years, which is way too long. There needs to ... or an ophthalmologist. The division of family practice had a party for the graduates and that was the deciding factor; they wooed me in. My practice was always half full-service family practice and ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2011
... there were too many balls to juggle, especially with my practice, but the more I taught the more I liked it. I used ... day for you look like? When I was at the height of my practice, at my busiest time, my day would start at 6 a.m. I ... been doing it? I’ve been doing it since earlier in my practice and I continue; I’m going to continue once my BCMA ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... returned to his hometown of Victoria, where he has been in practice ever since. His career has been influenced by John ... best interest of patients, and on the Divisions of Family Practice as well.  It’s going to be very important that we ... solving can be a very rewarding part of professional practice. I think it’s an extension of the advocacy we do ...
Interviews December 2010
... became a certificant of the CFPC in 1982. His scope of practice extends beyond the spectrum of office and hospital ... Columbia, where he teaches medical students, family practice residents, and midwives.  Dr Wilson is highly ... role in helping establish the Vancouver Family Practice Maternity Service (FPMS), a group of dedicated ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... from the University of Calgary in 1986. He set up general practice first in Whitecourt, Alberta, moving 1 year later to ... after his move to Chilliwack in 1998—where he remains in practice—he became a Board delegate and has been active in ... variety, so I completed the year, then went into family practice. I felt I had the best of both worlds—I had a year ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, March 2008
... practised in this country and others is predicated on the practice that the majority prevails. The democratic process ...