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Letters / BY: Donald J. Young, MD January/February 2004
... small entity, be it a hospital, restaurant, hotel, medical practice, or orthopedic surgeon implies neither inferiority ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD March 2004
... by following the directions. After 2 weeks of diligent practice, the QWERTY keyboard was no longer a mystery and my ...
Letters / BY: John R. McLeod, MD April 2004
I was in a family practice office for 24 years until I became a Burnaby ... result is that, across the medical disciplines from family practice to internal medicine to plastic surgery to ... there are fewer patients in hospital per doctor. In family practice, the volume of hospitalized patients has dropped ...
Letters / BY: Arturo S. Manes, MD May 2004
... and alarming shift away from the travail of family practice as a discipline of medicine. Family practitioners ... specialty upon graduation. Currently a full and running practice cannot be given away, let alone sold. It is ... care needs of individuals. This trend away from family practice has serious negative consequences and ought to be ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard Toews, MD July/August 2004
... who are “well-heeled.” Fortunately, in our 25 years of practice, I have yet to find a patient who failed to respond ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD September 2004
... myself included, harbor no misperception of family practice. I always regarded family practice as being too difficult for me. Any sensible ... school enrollment, increasing the availability of family practice residencies, and increasing teaching by family ...
Letters / BY: J.R. Dale, LRCP & SI November 2004
... during which time I also opened up a walk-in clinic. My GP practice was rural, being located in areas with no specialist ... he take a careful look at the whole issue of standards of practice and quality of care as the real agenda. I can well ... should be paid more per visit! If Dr Krisman thinks family practice is too difficult, he should perhaps go and try ...
Letters / BY: Miguel Imperial, MD December 2004
... office closed, with no one willing to take on his complete practice, my medical file had been shipped off to a walk-in ... “may lie in the relatively new phenomenon of family practice being closed or restricted in accepting new ... to find any FP, let alone having the choice of an FP whose practice style fit my family and me. If patients were buyers, ...
Letters / BY: Alastair S.E. Younger, MBChB, ChM, FRCSC December 2004
... home office remains a key and critical part of the overall practice of this physician. The judgment was based on the ... disallow expenses that are a vital part of the business of practice of physicians. I wish to hear from any other member ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD December 2004
... or charts of those of whom they are the guardians. Private practice may not be representative, but if it is, it must be ...