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President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2020
... the most convenient ways. Grassroots divisions of family practice and medical staff associations banded together to ... on our visual, auditory, and tactile senses after years of practice and hands-on experiences. We can remember what an ... society, will be forever changed. We will refer to medical practice as “pre-COVID-19” and “post-COVID-19” in the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Naomi Dove, MD, MPH, FRCPC November 2020
... is not clear, and schools are not routinely closed in practice. Current evidence suggests that illness ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD September 2020
... lacked a sense of control or influence over many areas of practice. Pandemic planning and implementation brought ... simulation development and training reinforced optimal practice, PPE use, and other safety protocols. Individual and ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc July/August 2020
... opportunities available to support physician health is the practice of self-care.[ 3 ] Doctors of BC has published a ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... time—I was the first chair of our division of family practice, then I got involved with Shared Care and helped get ... councils and so on. And then the divisions of family practice started up locally just around about the time the ... finish. It was so different for us. You could go do family practice and then go back and specialize later. That ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews July/August 2018
... and skills that I wanted to keep as part of my future practice. I loved Montreal and learned French while I was ... in the last year: through our participation in the General Practice Services Committee, Doctors of BC is influential in ... views of all members, no matter their location, type of practice, stage of practice, or demographics. We are diverse ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2017
... idea of community and having a variety of things to do in practice. When I did a rural practice elective in Osoyoos in the South Okanagan that ... But I was very happy there. I had moved into a supportive practice group with a couple of people who were stellar ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... as a family doctor or specialist might encounter in their practice, but thinking beyond that and being curious about ... your patients’ expectations changed as well? The family practice I inherited almost 20 years ago was from a doctor ... early- to mid-60s. Jumping forward 20 years, my latest practice profile tells me that my average patient is now 76 ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
... family physician with a focus on geriatric general practice. A last-minute decision to pursue medicine led Dr ... where after 2 decades of satisfying work running his practice he’s also in a role that fulfills everything else ... these people are cool!   Having spent 27 years in general practice, 23 of them in Vancouver, how have you seen primary ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... began in 1995, including 10 years on the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) and 8 years as its ... Australia, which is when I worked in Cairns doing family practice and worked in the Cairns-based hospital. Then we ... time. We did so many fantastic things to improve family practice. It was inspirational to be there. Are there any ...