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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: 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: 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 ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Farhad Ghaseminejad, MSc June 2023
... family physician offices through Divisions of Family Practice. With the introduction of this service through SSC, ... throughout BC can incorporate this service into their practice to provide more equitable care to all patients in a ... UBC —Mei-ling Wiedmeyer, MD, CCFP Department of Family Practice, UBC Specialist Services Committee Professional ...
BC Stories / BY: Jim Petzold, MD July/August 2023
... began a 40-year career in family medicine. Early on in my practice, a new patient presented one day. His name was ...
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: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC April 2022
... approach. In addition, a systematic review of its clinical practice guidelines states that SOC7 “contains no list of ... could not be used by individuals or services to benchmark practice.”[ 2 ] Finland, Sweden, Norway, and the UK are ...
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: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC April 2022
... published in the journal [ BCMJ 2021;63:383-387 ]. The practice at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals is to ...
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 ...