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Letters / BY: Thomas J. DeMarco, MD, June 2024
... primary care [ BCMJ 2024;66:14-15] . I have been in family practice for 40 years. I have been on call for most of that ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2024
... late 1960s and early 1970s, I was asked to explain why my practice profile registered three standard deviations above ... become familiar with pelvic anatomy. It seems this helpful practice has been discontinued. I suspect the reluctance ...
Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM June 2024
... optimization have been well established in literature and practice since 2000. Preoperative clinics are now mainstream ... imperative to repair the future by changing our present practice. Competing interests Dr Zentner is founder of the ...
Letters / BY: Rainer Borkenhagen, MD January/February 2024
... to divorce. I was (as was typical) overly committed to my practice, and she had the family burden, to the detriment of ... burden, which entailed me giving up my family practice and working part-time for the next 10 years. This ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... physicians willing to start or remain in a longitudinal practice. Slow medicine originated in Italy (after the slow ... experimenting with implementing the approach in my own practice. I’ve scheduled more time with patients, as well ...
Premise / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC September 2023
... 18 , 19 ] Family physician–led teams could provide practice-generated salaried positions for nurses, physician ... model of as little as $48. It is a return to the family practice equivalent incomes of the 1970s[ 2 ] [ Table 1 ], ... record keeping. The current platforms have made the practice of medicine less efficient, possibly contributing to ...
Premise / BY: Daniel Hong, PharmD, BCGP December 2023
... as the standard of care by evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Although the total body of evidence ... of VTE with anticoagulants than with ASA, it is common practice for patients with orthopaedic fractures undergoing ... have the potential to significantly influence clinical practice and guidelines, careful and selective application of ...
Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... breast ultrasound was covered, an audit of a Vancouver practice showed that 7 cancers were detected per 1000 ... practising breast radiologist in Vancouver and works in a practice that offers screening and diagnostic breast imaging ...
Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP November 2023
... nurses, and other providers best suited to that practice, location, and population. Patient volume and ...
Premise / BY: R. Eric Demers, BSc, CCPA, CD September 2023
... BC’s and Manitoba’s performance in using advanced practice providers in health care teams because of their ... are included in the tables to provide context. Advanced practice providers Advanced practice providers are health professionals who undertake ...