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Letters / BY: Lorne Brandt, MD, January/February 2015
... town, and me. In our personal care home we had a practice of reviewing medications with the charge nurse every ... or changed. The neighboring town did not have this practice. Not surprisingly, the average number of drugs taken ...
Letters / BY: Mike Marshall, MD, January/February 2015
... just as the overall decline in full-service family practice began when we were told we did not qualify for ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2015
... catastrophic hemorrhage of general practitioners from the practice of obstetrics when there was a political decision ... targets a variety of GPs, including those who are new to practice and want a bit of a confidence boost and ongoing ... from the MC4BC program to apply ( http://gpscbc.ca/family-practice-incentive/maternity-care-bc ). —Shelley Ross, MD ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Cathy Clelland, MD January/February 2015
... There is enhanced access for appointments. 5.    The practice includes well-supported information technology, ... health care provider satisfaction, knowledge, skills, and practice behaviors; broader range of services; better access, ... are four main issues: 1.    Clarification of scope of practice and roles 2.    Information sharing 3.    ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... case. In the 1920s medical specialties emerged and medical practice began to shift from home to office and hospital. ... and Surgeons of Canada in 1931. Since the 1950s general practice has become a specialty in its own right. As medicine ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, MB BCh BAO March 2015
... article promoting a living and local method of family practice review and quality improvement [ BCMJ ... Re: Measuring and improving quality of care in family practice ...
Letters / BY: Denise McLeod, MD, April 2015
... of the patient’s medical home—a model of family practice promoted by the College of Family Physicians of ... is but one innovative approach to advance collaborative practice and access to family physicians for all—similar ... efforts in backing other patient’s medical home practice models will yield the best results for the health of ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2015
... Service—Dr Carole Williams Silver Medal in General Practice—Dr Matthew Petzold Dr Cam Coady Award Dr David ...
Letters / BY: Bret Batchelor, MD, September 2015
... of the other team members.” In other words, in a busy practice, a physician will likely be unable to bill for a ... sees that patient. How is this supposed to get residents practice-ready if, in order to bill for the review and care ...
Letters / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP November 2015
... graduates are drawn to them and away from general family practice. That they drain the system through inappropriate ...