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Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD October 2022
... recently (for a price higher than the $31 average family practice fee) I was thinking about Dr David Chapman’s ... overheads have become huge. To function properly, a family practice needs a secretary, nurse, and office manager. Their ... service item, with a charge of well over $100/hour. Family practice is an expensive business, but paying for those costs ...
Letters / BY: Rob Lehman, MD, CCFP, MClSc, FCFP(LM) June 2022
... mental health services. Offer input to divisions of family practice and medical staff hospital associations. Contribute ... a fee-for-service system that encourages a high-volume practice, so spend as little time as possible with each ... the foot-voting will turn back in the direction of family practice, particularly longitudinal comprehensive family ...
Letters / BY: Renee Fernandez, MD, CCFP December 2021
... This discussion highlights a disconnect between the practice of medicine and the current fee-for-service system ... antiquated document that does not reflect modern medical practice or support patient-centred appropriate care. Despite ... fee-for-service modernization will align current medical practice with the values and goals of our health care system. ...
Letters / BY: Brian S. Pound, MBBS, LRCP, MRCS, LMCC June 2021
Bravo, Dr Chow! I’m retired from practice now after 50 years as a GP/FP and found your article ... trusted as a caring friend, but alas, the pressures of practice, bureaucracy, paperwork, and rules of conduct have ... with those we care for. Your philosophy of medical practice illustrates a means to bring back the very real joy ...
Letters / BY: Roger Seldon, MBChB, MD June 2021
... to chronic unremitting intoxication). It is not regular practice to force treatment due to addictions. This patient ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... we don’t have any general psychiatrists in private practice anymore, because, I think, they got paid so poorly. ... as an incentive for people to be psychiatrists in private practice, that would probably do it. That’s not going to ... work were hiked. It caused an exodus from outpatient practice that is still causing problems for us today. So ...
Letters / BY: Stephen D. Anderson, MD, FRCPC July/August 2021
... P. Anderson, MD Clinical Instructor, Department of Family Practice, UBC Faculty of Medicine —Bethan Everett, MBA, PhD ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... therefore application—of what they mean in a practice setting. Essentially, the review found that the ... groups. Solutions: mindsets and tools Antiracism is the practice of actively identifying, challenging, preventing, ... and privilege embedded in their own understanding and practice. It requires curiosity and a commitment to lifelong ...
Letters / BY: Lise Leveille, MD, MHSc September 2021
... outlined by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC practice standard on virtual care, it is unacceptable to ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... analyses have stopped short of supporting any change in practice and if ultrasound’s use as a primary diagnostic ... on patients and supports its continued consideration for practice guidelines and provider training. Competing ... authors have stopped short of recommending changes in practice, and chest X-ray remains the recommended study in ...