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Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC January/February 2004
... entirely reliable, reproducible, or realistic for everyday practice. It is not surprising then that there is widespread ... in monitoring and optimizing treatment for CHF Current practice for treating heart failure involves institution of ... this area before any definitive treatment can be put into practice. BNP may also eventually have a role as a screening ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paula Braitstein, MA, MSc January/February 2004
... to transplantation is a historical artifact, and a practice not based on current medical evidence. When it comes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Teresa Clarke, MD January/February 2004
... for fibromyalgia on 24 fibromyalgia patients in my practice. The protocol was developed by AFCI director of ... in order to transmit heat along the shaft. In Chinese practice, moxibustion is used to help patients who are ...
Letters / BY: Donald J. Young, MD January/February 2004
... small entity, be it a hospital, restaurant, hotel, medical practice, or orthopedic surgeon implies neither inferiority ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Jarchow, MSW March 2004
... on “expert” evaluation. Finally, it is now standard practice for sexual abuse examinations to include colposcopic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jean Hlady, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... be time-consuming, stressful, and disruptive to a regular practice. However, medical expertise is often critical to a ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD March 2004
... by following the directions. After 2 weeks of diligent practice, the QWERTY keyboard was no longer a mystery and my ...
Letters / BY: John R. McLeod, MD April 2004
I was in a family practice office for 24 years until I became a Burnaby ... result is that, across the medical disciplines from family practice to internal medicine to plastic surgery to ... there are fewer patients in hospital per doctor. In family practice, the volume of hospitalized patients has dropped ...
Letters / BY: Arturo S. Manes, MD May 2004
... and alarming shift away from the travail of family practice as a discipline of medicine. Family practitioners ... specialty upon graduation. Currently a full and running practice cannot be given away, let alone sold. It is ... care needs of individuals. This trend away from family practice has serious negative consequences and ought to be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD June 2004
... hardware intended to solve problems they face in clinical practice. However, the level of change required to implement ... to one another. In order to be effective in a clinical practice setting, an electronic medical record system needs ... the current level of technology in a specific medical practice and the total cost of making the jump to the next ...