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Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... as a family doctor or specialist might encounter in their practice, but thinking beyond that and being curious about ... your patients’ expectations changed as well? The family practice I inherited almost 20 years ago was from a doctor ... early- to mid-60s. Jumping forward 20 years, my latest practice profile tells me that my average patient is now 76 ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD May 2016
... there, it is an amazing relief. In this cruel world our practice has become a little sanctuary where we can strive ... of us who chooses kindness as the underlying tenet of our practice decisions, even when it’s hard, is pushing back a ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2016
... only taken 2 weeks off this year. I have a solo family practice with no locums available. I drag around my faithful ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2016
... difficult indeed. However, in my over 20 years of clinical practice, I can count on one hand the number of patients for ...
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 ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... in place to meet the successes that Divisions of Family Practice has achieved for family doctors; second, the ... many professors and doctors instilled in me a passion for practice and continuous learning, lifelong learning. I truly ... fair economic reward. Today we have 35 divisions of family practice in 230 communities around the province. . . . As ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD March 2016
... I was making in support of full-service comprehensive practice. I was later approached by one of the more youthful ... For those of us in the UBC Class of 1974 who chose general practice as a career path, Marcus Welby was the role model we ... a business model that promoted high-volume low-intensity practice. It’s a small wonder that walk-in clinics began to ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC May 2016
... be merit to PROMs data collection as a means of individual practice reflection, their usefulness cannot be extrapolated to treatment or practice comparisons without rigorous patient population ...
Premise / BY: Margo S. Clarke, MD November 2016
... fashion. These oddities happen consistently, but in a busy practice these observations simply help to confirm the ... article is written with hope that physicians in clinical practice—especially those new to practice—will become curious, if they are not already, and ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD January/February 2016
... has changed. My desire to get rid of deficiencies in practice will force me over the obstacles. And when I hold ...