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Letters / BY: Arthur Van Wart, MD May 2001
... 2001;43(2):71]) describes very clearly the urban family practice reality. During my last 7 years of practice I coordinated the UBC Department of Family Practice Residency City Site. All of the residents received ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Goldberger, MD June 2001
... in-house hospital physicians has been the urban general practice. The lure of a reasonable salary without the ...
Letters / BY: J.L. Cochlin, MD June 2001
... pursuing other areas of medicine in preference to family practice and that walk-in clinic medicine was much preferred ... Rock physicians had confronted the Section of General Practice regarding the walk-in clinic problem, I had also ... the degree of job dissatisfaction and burnout in family practice. Ongoing attrition of the family physician ranks ...
Letters / BY: Peter V. Richards, MB July / August 2001
... of things (how many health ministers have we had during my practice lifetime?), seem to be ignoring this very high ...
Letters / BY: G. Kenefick, MB July / August 2001
... A little elaboration may be of help.   Urban general practice is now very rapidly coming to crisis stage. This may ... are no new physicians setting up in a traditional family practice. Why is this so? Here are some of the reasons: • ... are full. • Retiring physicians can’t give away a practice—let alone sell it. As recently as 10 to 15 years ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Bernat, MD July / August 2001
... that what we are seeing is a change in urban family practice and walk-in clinics are a response to this change. ... winner. What we are missing is the point that urban family practice is changing and we are in the midst of this chaos. ... facing our leaders in the BCMA and the Society of General Practice. To date, I see no one trying to develop a new ...
Letters / BY: G.F. Roseborough, MD July / August 2001
... to the University milieu and knows little about private practice when he makes a statement, correctly, that medicine ... the wheel. Any physician completing 30 years of private practice should receive recognition. While Governor General ...
Premise / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD July / August 2001
... Practitioner profiles are used to influence practitioner practice patterns, to provide physicians an opportunity to compare their practice patterns with their peers, and to focus audit resources. To measure the efficiency of practice, an estimate of the level of expected cost is ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG September 2001
... nature throws your way is easy in theory, but tough in practice. In the past few months, virtually everyone involved ...
Letters / BY: Peter M. Richardson, MD October 2001
... letter reminds us that its mandate is to regulate the practice of medicine “in the public interest.” We need a ...