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Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2022
... Physicians within a clinic have different styles of practice, see different volumes of patients, and work a ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD April 2022
... and dry-clean my cape, and all would be well. My family practice was so busy that on many days I would have to send ...
Letters / BY: Vaclav Hyrman, MD, FRCPC December 2022
... toxic organizational culture, a system-level problem. The practice of medicine is replete with unexpected and ... there must be a way around it. Having seen (in psychiatric practice) people suffering from symptoms of burnout ...
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: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC October 2022
... regarding informed consent for gender dysphoria. Clinical practice and informed consent must acknowledge less invasive, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2022
... The idea is that a patient becomes part of a family practice where they can access primary care providers such as ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... April 2019 issue of the BCMJ titled “Langley City family practice” [ 2019;61:106 ]. Considering my current ... to vent about the apparent unfairness of it all. Our group practice has grown to seven physicians, and I would like to ... less interested in running a busy full-service family practice. They are often accused of being less hardworking ...
Letters / BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP December 2022
... especially new graduates interested in trying out practice in a beautiful new province. It seems unconscionable ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB June 2022
... there is no incentive for family physicians to work in a practice that provides full-service longitudinal care. First, ... family physicians for the work they did outside of their practice—for example, committee work for the association. ... compensating us for the added costs of running an office practice, over and above what family physicians who don’t ...
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 ...