Dr Rae is a clinical professor emeritus of medicine at the University of British Columbia, retired head of nephrology at St. Paul’s Hospital, and a Founder Member, University Clinical Faculty Association/Section of Clinical Faculty. Now living in Victoria, Dr Rae continues to teach at UBC and is a frequent contributor to the BC Medical Journal.
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Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC
Joe Sidorov was born in Yalta in 1920 at the height of the Russian Revolution. His father was killed shortly before and his widowed mother escaped the new communist state with her baby son first to Poland, later... Read More
Thanksgiving 2005. What a magnificent day to read the articles on mentoring (BCMJ 2005;47[7]). I hope the fact that English is my fourth language will not limit my ability to express my heartfelt sentiments: Hurrah!... Read More
Society gave our universities the exclusive authority to train doctors more than a century ago. We are now short of doctors and the shortage is getting worse. Why is this? The reasons are complex, and although... Read More
If we are to succeed in repopulating our province with doctors, we must make far greater use of seasoned clinical faculty mentors from the community—physicians who have dedicated their lives to the art of caring for... Read More
Fifty years ago, just as the gas-lit cobbled, streets and brewers’ drays of old London were disappearing, I first entered the wards of a London teaching hospital. There I began listening and talking to patients, and I... Read More