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Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... leadership positions. Were there concerns that the pool of people being attracted to the Board was too small? Partly. ... medical staff meetings. That breeds apathy, so valuing people for their contributions is essential. During ...
MDs To Be / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, September 2010
... back to the United States, where more than 40 million people—more than Canada’s entire population—do not have ... supported access to health care services, I think of the people with whom I enjoyed that holiday dinner. Had they ...
MDs To Be / BY: Jenny Ko, March 2010
... about achievable quality of life experienced by people living in the community with mech­anical ... permissible.  Worst of all, legalized euthanasia puts people who are suffering and vulnerable at risk, and no legal ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, March 2010
... change. “To effect large-scale change, you need to rally people behind a common goal,” he explains.  When he ... to get their agreement to select a common vendor. Some people already had an EMR, some were close to retirement, and ... practice and couldn’t afford it. The more I spoke to people, the more I got confirmation that it was a good idea. ...
MDs To Be / BY: Gavin Tansley, March 2009
... school and nearly everyone put up a hand. I think some people might have excitedly raised two. He concluded his ... awestruck as I listened to the most educated and talented people I had ever met talk to us with sincere respect. We ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... thing you could do academically. I always wanted to help people, but I can’t really say I had a deep sense of what ... my intellectual and academic longings, I enjoyed the people, and I thought dealing with medical issues would be a nice area to interact with people.  I’ve always liked solving problems, and also I ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2008
... do it for? From age 10 until 27—through most of school. People ask me how I trained and competed in university and ... something that really interested me. The advice I give to people contemplating going into medicine is, If your ... What’s your favorite thing to do as a doctor? Helping people maintain their health is my biggest focus. I enjoy ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... gray hair. That’s typical of medicine anywhere—young people have got a different idea of lifestyle. They don’t ... a democracy, and the majority rules. We’re not squashing people who vote for or against a particular thing—but once ... say fee issues, or a big fight with government, people come. If they don’t come, I read it as a vote of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Maia Love, BSc, BGS, January/February 2007
... to as transtheoretical therapy. Using multiple studies of people who successfully achieved abstinence from their ... addition, motivational interviewing has shown efficacy for people with substance-abuse rather than substance-dependence ... medicine researcher. In addition, many thanks to several people working in the field of addictions medicine in ...
MDs To Be / BY: Lee MacKay, BSc, April 2007
... health care cooperatives providing care to over 1 million people spanning eight provinces. The International Health ... as one of the central requirements of Aboriginal people for their health services. [9]  The health ...