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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 ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB October 2023
... answer is in the negative. Our local division of family practice has successfully attached thousands of patients over ...
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 ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Ruth Habte, MD September 2022
... care system, and to end the inequities we encounter in practice. Universal access to contraception is a vital ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC April 2022
... approach. In addition, a systematic review of its clinical practice guidelines states that SOC7 “contains no list of ... could not be used by individuals or services to benchmark practice.”[ 2 ] Finland, Sweden, Norway, and the UK are ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) December 2022
... could hardly be more disparate, in both philosophy and practice, from the traditional techniques employed by ... In fact, Western thinking is so ingrained that, in practice, it constitutes our only philosophical and political ...
Letters / BY: Robert Semeniuk, MD, FRCSC July/August 2022
... so be it. I acquired my licence to perform family practice during my training and worked walk-in clinic shifts ... want. Instead, we need to support the areas of family practice that require help, including remuneration. —Robert ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC September 2022
... regarding informed consent for gender dysphoria. Clinical practice and informed consent must acknowledge less invasive, ...
Letters / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC April 2022
... published in the journal [ BCMJ 2021;63:383-387 ]. The practice at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals is to ...