Dr Verchere practises pediatric plastic surgery at BC Children’s Hospital, and is a clinical professor at the University of British Columbia. In addition to her affiliation with BC Children’s, Dr Verchere is a member of the consultative staff at Vancouver General Hospital (UBC). Dr Verchere’s special medical interests include cleft lip and palate; brachial plexus injuries; pediatric burns; congenital hand, pediatric hand, and facial trauma; and pediatric microsurgery. In her free time Dr Verchere enjoys spending time with her family of boys, gardening, reading, stiltwalking, and sewing.
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Cynthia Verchere, MD
I recently spent hours scrutinizing and trying to objectively rate CaRMS applicant dossiers as a member of our residency training committee. Then I shared and sorted my impressions among those of my five other committee... Read More
By Ian Brown. Random House Canada, 2010. ISBN 9780679310099. Paperback, 304 pages. $21.00. A Globe and Mail journalist’s second child has an extremely rare and severe congenital developmental disorder about... Read More
By Carol Cassella. Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2009. ISBN 9781416556114. Paperback, 320 pages. $19.99. Oxygen is a well-crafted novel set in the quite realistic life of an anesthesiologist in a Seattle... Read More
By Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, and Susan Baxter, PhD. Praeger Publishers, 2009. ISBN: 0-313-35398-0. Hardcover, 255 pages. $56.00. I read this book essentially as a layperson might; my comfort with the details of... Read More
The university says I am. My job description, such as it is, insists I am. My CV documents the talks and seminars that I have given over the years. There are residents, fellows, and students who I have seen pass through... Read More
The Wrong Side of an Illness. By Owen Stanley Surman, MD. Online: iUniverse, 2007. ISBN: 978-0595477524. Paperback, 216 pages. $20.90. The secondary title of this book is A Doctor’s Love Story; it follows... Read More
Still Alice. By Lisa Genova. Toronto: Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster Inc.), 2007. ISBN: 978-1439102817. Paperback, 320 pages. $17.50. This book haunts me. It is the realistic fictional account of a brilliant... Read More
Do I Need to See the Doctor? By Brian Murat, MD, Greg Stewart, MD, and John Rea, MD. Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-15972-9. Paperback, 218 pages. $21.95. Three physicians from... Read More
I feel very fortunate and privileged to count myself among the 50% of married people who married well. Now in our twentieth year of marriage, my husband has proven to be the most amazing partner, father, provider, and... Read More
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