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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 ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP December 2022
... this subject continues to pose a problem, the Patterns of Practice Committee decided to revisit the topic. While ... as time-consuming, it is an important requirement of practice. In the process of a billing audit, the physician ... detailed service provision requirements, such as General Practice Services Committee fee items for family physicians, ...
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 ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP July/August 2021
... this subject continues to pose a problem, the Patterns of Practice Committee decided to rerun the article. The ... province. While the enrolment, auditing, and patterns of practice of referring practitioners remain under the MPA, the ... sought. —Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Laboratory Services Act: What ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP September 2021
... this subject continues to pose a problem, the Patterns of Practice Committee decided to rerun the article. In the ... —Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Laboratory Services Act: ...
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 ...
Billing Tips / BY: Nick Szpakowicz, MD April 2020
... in audits related to your specialty and/or scope of practice. If you are called, the audit will be scheduled ... Committee (AIC) requests an on-site audit of a medical practice, an attempt is made to match the medical inspector with the type of practice being audited. Having a peer physician conduct the ...
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 ...