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Clinical Articles / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, January/February 2014
... the practitioner from unreasonable restrictions in practice as well as unreasonable expectations. Traditionally, ... for example, is expected to restrict his or her practice to the “normal and customary” activities of that ... average physician would experience in 8 weeks of full-time practice, which is also the minimum level of activity ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Malcolm Brigden, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP, January/February 2014
... and when can it be encountered in general clinical practice? Monoclonal gammopathy is the in­­creased ... benign medical conditions commonly encountered in clinical practice may be associated with monoclonal gammopathy ( see ... (MGUS): When is MGUS likely to be encountered in general practice? What investigations should be undertaken? How ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, January/February 2014
... to the US. He was an associate in a downtown Seattle practice from 1964 until 1966, at which time he moved to the ... of Issaquah, Washington. On Dr Terwiel’s first day of practice in Issaquah he had 20 patients and the numbers grew ... to Maple Ridge where he opened his full-service family practice as an associate of Dr Arber, one of his most ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kostas Ioannou, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... degree, his foresight would eventually influence the practice of medicine by helping clinicians evaluate and treat ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haroon Hasan, BSc, MPH, June 2014
... growth hormone replacement therapy (GHRT). It is common practice to discontinue GHRT after the achievement of final ... the current state of coverage for GHRT in the province of practice for each endocrinologist and to determine whether ... 1 ). The vast majority of respondents (82%) have been in practice for more than 10 years. Furthermore, the majority of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, October 2014
... Ontario patients treated with warfarin in routine clinical practice.[ 7 ] The large sample size of 125 195 subjects ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Shelley Ross, MD October 2014
... on the right path from day one. Shirley chose family practice because it offered a variety of challenges and ... to the whole family. Looking after the children in her practice was the highlight of her day. She would have such fun with her patients and her practice that people often asked whether there was a party ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... prescribed preventive medications in accordance with best practice guidelines for individual chronic diseases.[ 7,8 ] ... “a need to explore and understand poor prescribing practice in order to know how to improve it and enhance ... meetings organized by the St. Paul’s Hospital Family Practice Residency Program as well as formal UBC Department ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anna F. Lee, MDCM, PhD, FRCPC, December 2014
... sudden death of young individuals is not a standardized practice except at BC Children's Hospital, and there are ... no established provincial guidelines that mandate this practice. Case data A 10-year-old child collapsed at school. ... or incorporated consistently into routine autopsy practice. Specifically, the type of tissue needed, and the ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2014
... in relating the teaching of gross anatomy to clinical practice, and he integrated it with histology, radiology, and neuroanatomy. That was in contrast to the practice of anatomy teaching in most other medical schools. ...