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Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP April 2016
... Perhaps Dr Byrne felt that an analogy to veterinary practice was too simplistic, but a veterinarian treating an ...
Letters / BY: Evert Tuyp, MD, FRCPC March 2016
... allergists, etc., as well.  The Divisions of Family Practice have done a wealth of good for GPs, as former ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD May 2016
... pattern. I am unconvinced that high-volume low-intensity practice is a meaningful deployment of comprehensive medical ... emerging subspecialty of Internet-facilitated prescription practice (high-volume low-intensity on steroids) worries me ... excellent position paper,  A Vision for Canada: Family Practice: The Patient’s Medical Home , but would point out ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD September 2016
... has a statutory obligation to set standards for medical practice, and most elements contained in the standard on safe ... must not abrogate its legal obligation to regulate medical practice, including prescribing. Regulation is foundational, ...
Letters / BY: Lorne Brandt, MD, January/February 2015
... town, and me. In our personal care home we had a practice of reviewing medications with the charge nurse every ... or changed. The neighboring town did not have this practice. Not surprisingly, the average number of drugs taken ...
Letters / BY: Denise McLeod, MD, April 2015
... of the patient’s medical home—a model of family practice promoted by the College of Family Physicians of ... is but one innovative approach to advance collaborative practice and access to family physicians for all—similar ... efforts in backing other patient’s medical home practice models will yield the best results for the health of ...
Letters / BY: Mike Marshall, MD, January/February 2015
... just as the overall decline in full-service family practice began when we were told we did not qualify for ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2015
... Service—Dr Carole Williams Silver Medal in General Practice—Dr Matthew Petzold Dr Cam Coady Award Dr David ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2015
... catastrophic hemorrhage of general practitioners from the practice of obstetrics when there was a political decision ... targets a variety of GPs, including those who are new to practice and want a bit of a confidence boost and ongoing ... from the MC4BC program to apply ( http://gpscbc.ca/family-practice-incentive/maternity-care-bc ). —Shelley Ross, MD ...
Letters / BY: Bret Batchelor, MD, September 2015
... of the other team members.” In other words, in a busy practice, a physician will likely be unable to bill for a ... sees that patient. How is this supposed to get residents practice-ready if, in order to bill for the review and care ...