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Letters / BY: Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, CRCSC January/February 2023
... that year! Later, when the two of us were both in practice at VGH, he gave anesthetics for my patients. He was ...
Letters / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP November 2023
As a family physician in practice in BC for 35 years, it is nice to see that our ... 24/7 access to the patients registered in a particular practice. They need to have enough members that there is no ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP January/February 2023
... provided by community longitudinal family physicians and practice teams throughout a patient’s lifetime. There is an ...
Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP November 2023
... nurses, and other providers best suited to that practice, location, and population. Patient volume and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Priya Manjoo, MD March 2023
The Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines published in 2020 define obesity as a ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD December 2023
... sponsored by health authorities, divisions of family practice, Doctors of BC, and the Ministry of Health to ... that is soon to sever us from the long-serving autonomy of practice that we fought so hard to preserve over time. ...
Letters / BY: Marko Yurkovich, MD, CCFP December 2023
... based on my experience as a family physician with years of practice in primary care, gaining access to a ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC October 2022
... regarding informed consent for gender dysphoria. Clinical practice and informed consent must acknowledge less invasive, ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
... as fast as they can. Other family physicians are leaving practice to become surgical assistants or to practise virtual ...