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Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2020
... videoconferencing. Since COVID-19 announced itself to my practice in March 2020, I have “seen” a few thousand ... by the BC College of Family Physicians in their Tools for Practice resource states, “diagnostic accuracy/agreement of ... a quality improvement project with the help of the Practice Support Program through the General Practice ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2020
... few distant relatives, social contacts, and patients in my practice who are particularly at risk of a mental health ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2019
... thing for them. I have taken care of some families in my practice for close to 30 years and think of many of them as ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD January/February 2019
... My emails live in an institutional account in an academic practice. I really, truly understand and respect limitations ... plans, mistakes, and promises made.  I also run a practice where photographs are important. Patients living in ... safely communicate important questions or concerns. This practice is imperfect and reprimandable, but the proper ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD November 2019
... a few issues appeared. One, she was relatively new to our practice and her previous GP had not sent us her entire ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2019
... met my wife here, twice.* I managed to build a busy family practice while working at Langley Hospital, where I have ... physicians whom I am proud to call my friends. Joining a practice is like a marriage in many ways, so to those physicians considering joining a practice, I encourage you to choose wisely. I know I did. ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD April 2019
... I have gained along the way, despite only having been in practice for a short time. This period of transition is an ... my fellow colleagues who have also recently ventured into practice, let’s continue to learn and grow together. I look ... Editorials Reflections on my first year of independent practice, so far ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2019
... in my community don’t look forward to this part of their practice. Listening to patients’ complaints and recording ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2019
... on the enormous changes I have witnessed in the practice of medicine since being licensed in 1986. I was born ... to do a rotating internship and then enter general practice, or use the year to do GP locums and then return, ... regretted my career choice. I had no idea on entering practice in 1986 that seismic shifts in the delivery of ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... time—I was the first chair of our division of family practice, then I got involved with Shared Care and helped get ... councils and so on. And then the divisions of family practice started up locally just around about the time the ... finish. It was so different for us. You could go do family practice and then go back and specialize later. That ...