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Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2024
After a few years in practice, I witnessed some of my older colleagues give up ... a day off during the week, and I still do. Starting out in practice is nerve-racking. The worries are endless. The ... every new patient who walked through my door into my practice. That saved me a lot of headaches and is a pearl I ...
Premise / BY: Lauren Whitehead, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... for oncology. [15] The current Quebec model came into practice in November 2021, and coverage for IVF was once ...
Obituaries / BY: Janet Green, MD January/February 2024
... in the office is now considered full-time! He did family practice maternity, emergency room shifts (until we got ... walk-in clinics and locums after he gave up his full-time practice in 2011. He also did joint injections. At Courtenay ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Tara Lyon March 2023
... episode, “Putting Indigenous cultural safety into practice,”  and read her profile in Doctors Making a ...
Obituaries / BY: Michael Gordon December 2023
... of Manitoba, then moved to BC and began working in family practice and obstetrics in Langley and later Vancouver. ... raised four children while maintaining a busy family practice along with frequent maternity shifts at St. ...
President's Comment / BY: Joshua Greggain, MD January/February 2023
... a new Physician Master Agreement, and a new family practice payment model. Our advocacy work will continue in ...
BC Stories / BY: Jim Petzold, MD July/August 2023
... began a 40-year career in family medicine. Early on in my practice, a new patient presented one day. His name was ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD December 2023
... sponsored by health authorities, divisions of family practice, Doctors of BC, and the Ministry of Health to ... that is soon to sever us from the long-serving autonomy of practice that we fought so hard to preserve over time. ...
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 ...
Back Page / BY: Tej K. Khalsa, MD, MSc, FRCPC January/February 2023
... hopeful about the future.[ 1 ] In my mind-body medicine practice at the Mayo Clinic,[ 11 ] and now in my home ...