See responses to this letter: 1, 2, 3 I just returned home from my 4-hour shift in our walk-in clinic. As in many communities, our hospital-based GPs opened a walk-in several years... Read More
Letters
In the first month of UBC medical school, students are taught that, in the vast majority of cases, listening to what a patient has to say (i.e., taking a good history) yields the diagnosis. Ordering... Read More
I am adding to the letters published in your November 2000 issue [BCMJ 2000;42(9):413] regarding the physician supply issue and how best to deal with it. One of the solutions proposes more... Read More
A report in the British press (Sunday Telegraph 24 September 2000:4) states that 39 patients at two fertility clinics in Hampshire have been told that their frozen embryos are missing or... Read More
I would like to respond to and supplement the excellent article in the June 2000 issue of the British Columbia Medical Journal [42(5):241] by Dr Cairns, dean of the Faculty of... Read More