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Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... worked for 15 years in BC. As a colorectal surgeon, my practice is predominantly at St. Paul’s Hospital, where ... wait lists, which I’m sure you deal with in your practice. The feeling I got from a lot of people was that ... four kids, your wife has a career, and you have a busy practice and obligations to patients; how are you going to ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2023
... to know. I have the privilege to teach a course with the Practice Ready Assessment International Medical Graduate ... with you in your career? I’ve been practising family practice since 2005, which feels like both a long time and a ... and involved intimately in the longitudinal family practice model. I think that model and the opportunity to ...
Interviews / BY: Tara Lyon December 2023
... etc.—these activities are all essential to public health practice. They all came to a peak at once, and we all found ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... We have always had lovely neighbors. Where’s your practice? I no longer have my practice; I was in Surrey, initially. I was a solo ... I totally understand. I’ve had a full-service family practice in Langley for the past 30 years. What did your dad ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... we don’t have any general psychiatrists in private practice anymore, because, I think, they got paid so poorly. ... as an incentive for people to be psychiatrists in private practice, that would probably do it. That’s not going to ... work were hiked. It caused an exodus from outpatient practice that is still causing problems for us today. So ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... time—I was the first chair of our division of family practice, then I got involved with Shared Care and helped get ... councils and so on. And then the divisions of family practice started up locally just around about the time the ... finish. It was so different for us. You could go do family practice and then go back and specialize later. That ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews July/August 2018
... and skills that I wanted to keep as part of my future practice. I loved Montreal and learned French while I was ... in the last year: through our participation in the General Practice Services Committee, Doctors of BC is influential in ... views of all members, no matter their location, type of practice, stage of practice, or demographics. We are diverse ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2017
... idea of community and having a variety of things to do in practice. When I did a rural practice elective in Osoyoos in the South Okanagan that ... But I was very happy there. I had moved into a supportive practice group with a couple of people who were stellar ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... as a family doctor or specialist might encounter in their practice, but thinking beyond that and being curious about ... your patients’ expectations changed as well? The family practice I inherited almost 20 years ago was from a doctor ... early- to mid-60s. Jumping forward 20 years, my latest practice profile tells me that my average patient is now 76 ...
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 ...