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Letters / BY: Sue McLoughlin, MD, May 2016
... Marcus would only be suitable for those headed into family practice. Students destined for internal medicine specialties ...
Letters / BY: Vandad Yousefi, MD, CCFP, FHM, May 2016
... the complex reasons behind the overwhelming changes in practice patterns of modern-day family physicians. For ... family physicians by ensuring proper remuneration and practice support. Some of the ideas raised by Dr Nicolson may ... levels of complexity. The decline of comprehensive family practice is not only due to a fee guide that promotes ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2016
... with our patients’ mental dents. A privilege of general practice is that as the physician-patient relationship grows ...
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 ...
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: Bassam A. Masri, MD, FRCSC November 2016
... you will enjoy these articles and find them of use in your practice. —Bas Masri, MD, FRCSC Professor and Head of ...
Letters / BY: Justine Spencer, MD October 2016
... after every patient interaction. I’m grateful for this practice, which keeps me and my patients safe from contagious ... with possibly few reserves left to manage them. In a busy practice there is simply no time to fully address our ... take them home with you. —Justine Spencer, MD UBC Family Practice PGY-2 Letters I wash my hands of this: A plea for ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS July/August 2016
... single initiative, as we did with the divisions of family practice and the medical staff associations, can prove to be ... colleagues and leaders in the divisions of family practice across the province. Their grassroots work in ... supported such things as the creation of more team-based practice models, local recruitment and retention efforts, and ...
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 ...