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Letters / BY: Ron De Marchi, MD May 2002
... it was our new graduates who were choosing the WIC-type practice, but now we are seeing our previously established ... traditionalists jump ship toward the WIC method of practice as they slowly desert many of the roles of the ... increased by 11.5%, others will move toward the WIC type practice, as a comfortable living can be made on that billing ...
Letters May 2002
... thousands, discussing the state of health care and medical practice in the province. Character #1: “Doctors are ... in the world to live, and I have a good income from my practice. I have no complaints.” Character #15: “I ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard Toews, MD May 2002
...  [ BCMJ 2001;43(2):71 ]) about the demise of general practice in White Rock are not exaggerated. Our communities ... are witnessing a similar exit of family physicians from practice with no one to replace them. Those of us brave or ... as specialists. We will attract more doctors to family practice if they know that this is not a dead end. How many ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Burton H. Goldstein, DMD, MS, FRCDC June 2002
... There is also a discrepancy between clinical dental practice and scientific advances in neurobiology and the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Fleming, MD June 2002
... strong tool by which we can safely and reliably change our practice. The number of patients that are expected to be ...
Letters / BY: Susan Knoll, MD June 2002
... loss of that altruistic tendency that has accompanied the practice of medicine in years past. Don’t get me wrong. ... Although the financial rewards surpass my office practice, I far prefer to work out of my office. Why? Because ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2002
... need rigorous proof before being used in clinical practice. It does not make sense to assume that biologically ...
Letters / BY: Jim Henderson September 2002
... on the accessibility of research in support of clinical practice. My column analyzed, hopefully dispassionately, the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Theresa Isomura, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... caring for the mental health needs of patients in their practice. Studies show that the prevalence of patients seen ... HSO (Health Service Organization, a rostered primary care practice) Program, which was initiated in 1994 and funded by ... and we adopted this tenet for our project. Two family practice clinics participated: a clinic in Coquitlam with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Ellen Anderson, MD October 2002
... and difficult to score, making it less useful in clinical practice. The 20-item Zung Depression Self-Rating Scale is ... than most of the routine laboratory tests we use daily in practice. If the score is 4/9 or less, then we need to ... score on the HAM-D or BDI in most clinical trials—in practice we ideally want to see our patients in remission ...