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In an effort to address the high demand for endoscopies in their community, in July 2011, a group of general surgeons in Langley initiated a trial of group medical visits.  Group medical visits are included in the Practice Support Program (PSP) for specialist physicians with the learning sessions funded by the Specialist Services Committee.

The decision to try group visits followed from one of the surgeons, Dr Scott Cowie, learning about the practice from his wife, a family physician. 

Dr Williams is a general practitioner in Victoria.

What profession might you have pursued, if not for medicine?
Law.

Which talent would you most like to have?
To be able to sing. If I had a great singing voice I would sing all the time just for the joy of it.

Within all groups there are different ideas, behaviors, and interests among members that can be used very constructively, or can create problems.  

1925–2011
Ian was born in Hawick, Scotland. He attended school there and later in Edinburgh. 

He went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University, from where he graduated in 1947. He spent some time in general practice in southern England. Then he settled in Newcastle, where he embarked on the study of diagnostic radiology at the Royal Infirmary. He spent 5 years between Newcastle and Manchester.

Investigators at the University of Bri­tish Columbia and colleagues at the University of Calgary have launched a study investigating uncertainty in medical diagnosis. Health services researcher Dr Jude Kornelsen and family physician Dr Robert Woollard, both academic faculty in the Department of Family Practice at UBC, are interviewing physicians and patients for this Canadian Institutes of Health Research–funded study.