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Letters / BY: Marko Yurkovich, MD, CCFP December 2023
... based on my experience as a family physician with years of practice in primary care, gaining access to a ...
Letters / BY: Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, CRCSC January/February 2023
... that year! Later, when the two of us were both in practice at VGH, he gave anesthetics for my patients. He was ...
Letters / BY: Colette Davis, MD July/August 2023
... where this service can be accessed. Breast MRI, in my practice experience, is a resource so scarce that it is ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
... as fast as they can. Other family physicians are leaving practice to become surgical assistants or to practise virtual ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC October 2022
... regarding informed consent for gender dysphoria. Clinical practice and informed consent must acknowledge less invasive, ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC April 2022
... approach. In addition, a systematic review of its clinical practice guidelines states that SOC7 “contains no list of ... could not be used by individuals or services to benchmark practice.”[ 2 ] Finland, Sweden, Norway, and the UK are ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD October 2022
... recently (for a price higher than the $31 average family practice fee) I was thinking about Dr David Chapman’s ... overheads have become huge. To function properly, a family practice needs a secretary, nurse, and office manager. Their ... service item, with a charge of well over $100/hour. Family practice is an expensive business, but paying for those costs ...
Letters / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC April 2022
... published in the journal [ BCMJ 2021;63:383-387 ]. The practice at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals is to ...
Letters / BY: Vaclav Hyrman, MD, FRCPC December 2022
... toxic organizational culture, a system-level problem. The practice of medicine is replete with unexpected and ... there must be a way around it. Having seen (in psychiatric practice) people suffering from symptoms of burnout ...
Letters / BY: Rob Lehman, MD, CCFP, MClSc, FCFP(LM) June 2022
... mental health services. Offer input to divisions of family practice and medical staff hospital associations. Contribute ... a fee-for-service system that encourages a high-volume practice, so spend as little time as possible with each ... the foot-voting will turn back in the direction of family practice, particularly longitudinal comprehensive family ...