The cover story on acupuncture and the treatment of fibromyalgia raises many questions related to the basics of experimental design. Unfortunately, the trial as presented in January/February’s issue... Read More
Letters
Over the last decade there has been a distinct and alarming shift away from the travail of family practice as a discipline of medicine. Family practitioners are quitting in droves. New graduates are... Read More
I was in a family practice office for 24 years until I became a Burnaby hospitalist 3 years ago. As I see it there are various reasons for the hospitalist program [see BCMJ 2003;45:391–394 ... Read More
Dr A. Krisman’s letter in the November issue of the BCMJ [2003;45(9):431] criticizing the cesarean section rate of the province will be appreciated by other retired old fogey obstetricians... Read More
A sequence of events leads me to take the liberty of suggesting that a considerable number of physicians may, through a very simple measure, make their lives much better. Whilst clearing away some... Read More