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Physician Spotlight / BY: John Pawlovich, MD July/August 2015
... the small farming community of northern Alberta. Medical practice was a tapestry of clinic and hospital time, house ... time. Some might say it was the golden time of general practice. Whatever it was, goosebumps grow on my skin as I ... expressly requested his surgical skills. And his surgical practice was only one element in the package of general ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD January/February 2015
... of all fees.  —Keith J. White, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Submitting claims for a ...
Obituaries / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2015
... medical association, blazing the way for the now standard practice of having professional help with the government ... association about negotiations until 1994 when he left his practice to sit as a bencher for the Law Society. He also ...
Obituaries / BY: Robert N. Meek, MD, January/February 2015
... joined Dr Cam Allen and Dr Donald Starr in a partnership practice that is still in place almost 70 years later as the ... teaching students and residents for his entire 27 years of practice.  Dr Watt was an excellent and very fast technical ...
Obituaries / BY: Christopher Morrant, MBBS, January/February 2015
... Livingstone, who gave half a century of his life to family practice. Charles Dickens once said that great men are seldom ... St. Paul’s Hospital for 2 years before choosing family practice in Richmond, where he sometimes cared for several ...
Obituaries / BY: Lawrence Burr, MD, January/February 2015
... in 1977. In Bhopal he became a major influence in the practice of cardiac surgery and the teaching of medical and ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD March 2015
... with a written order [also referred to as a Patterns of Practice Order] made under Section 37(1)(e) to adopt an appropriate pattern of practice or billing. De-enrollment does not mean a physician ... you have been audited before and have signed a Patterns of Practice Order, it is critically important that you comply ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2015
... by 30%.[ 1 ] We have been encouraging divisions of family practice to organize these events in their communities, and ... (BCRPA) along with the Chilliwack Division of Family Practice. That division partnered with its local RPA around ... make these connections for us. And divisions of family practice can work directly with their local RPA if they ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS March 2015
... of perfect happiness? A rewarding and inspiring day in my practice followed by an epic kiteboarding session on one of ... patients share? Longevity. My Doctors of BC annual practice profile reminds me that my average patient is now in ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD April 2015
It has come to the attention of the Patterns of Practice Committee that physicians may be inappropriately ... the results. —Keith J. White, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips When to bill fee item 15142 ...