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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2007
... approach to chronic disease management processes and best practice suggestions between government and doctors was much ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2007
... In my community I have seen a significant change in practice patterns and prescribing habits related to the care ... best for our patients.  Guidelines and targets for best practice are unlikely to result in better outcomes until ...
Editorials April 2007
... generates revenue from government. How will PFF help rural practice, mental health, Aboriginal health, and other areas ...
Letters / BY: Hugh H. Macartney, MB, FRCP, June 2007
... sell prescribed medicines directly to their patients. The practice is however the norm in many types of unorthodox ...
Letters / BY: Jeff Lynskey, MD, June 2007
... the specialist sections and those of general/family practice. I am a GP. I did a 2-year family practice residency in 1986–88 in Alberta. I currently practise in rural BC. I have been in the same practice for 19 years. I have active hospital privileges. At ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... way (viz Dr Rachel Remen, professor of family practice, University of San Francisco). I have seen ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, September 2007
... that threatening? Those of us who work in general medical practice are acutely aware that we have few tools to treat ... created the revolving door of today’s typical medical practice. We cannot afford to be rigid, expounding the fixed ... created them.” — Stephen Malthouse, MD    General Practice, Denman Island Letters Our foe: the fixed idea ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD September 2007
... me once more to the breach (no pun intended). When I began practice at the old Grace Hospital almost 50 years ago ... question or criticism from peers. In the later years of my practice at Richmond Hospital, when making weekend rounds for ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2007
... a lot of money in a program dedicated to making family practice a more attractive career choice for medical ... out of the barn” editorial about the future of family practice. I am at a point in my life when things inevitably ... new government funding initiatives to reenergize family practice and family practice training, in addition to some ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2007
... these would guarantee the demise of my fledging general practice. There were two types of doctors—specialists and ... count on one hand those that have followed me into family practice, and I’ve been in practice for 15 years. Do I really care or am I content to ...