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Back Page / BY: Jim Petzold, MD September 2019
... the past 40 years mostly in full-service rural family practice in a small coastal community of British Columbia. ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd December 2018
... his strategic orientation did not go unnoticed. Medical practice Haughton chose emergency medicine deliberately. Few ... taking calls a few nights a week and managing a busy practice. He gradually discovered he enjoyed working night ... BC Children’s Hospital emergency department. Artistic practice The top floor of Haughton’s New Westminster home ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Vera Frinton, MD March 2018
... to be far less challenging. A life in medicine Family practice Vancouver’s North Shore soon became home for ... life, and Dr Clarence McNeill invited him to join him in practice. For the next 10 years George enjoyed a stimulating full-service family practice. He also participated in administrative medical ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: David Unger, MD December 2018
... “Safe prescribing of opioids and sedatives” practice standard,[ 1 ] published this year, strives to ... were removed and it is now a standard only. (Best practice musts and must nots .) Language was strengthened to ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews July/August 2018
... and skills that I wanted to keep as part of my future practice. I loved Montreal and learned French while I was ... in the last year: through our participation in the General Practice Services Committee, Doctors of BC is influential in ... views of all members, no matter their location, type of practice, stage of practice, or demographics. We are diverse ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2017
... fees, and government funding for the General Practice Services Committee, Shared Care, and the Specialist ... of the collaborative programs, the divisions of family practice, and our new facility engagement projects. Let’s ... which he lived his life. Silver Medal in General Medical Practice:   Dr Dylan Falk Dueck Gold Medal for Distinguished ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... as a family doctor or specialist might encounter in their practice, but thinking beyond that and being curious about ... your patients’ expectations changed as well? The family practice I inherited almost 20 years ago was from a doctor ... early- to mid-60s. Jumping forward 20 years, my latest practice profile tells me that my average patient is now 76 ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Benjamin Millar, MD, March 2016
... social media is rapidly growing for medical education and practice sharing, and emergency medicine has been on the ... decade as a platform for sharing medical education and practice approaches among health professionals. A recent ... in favor of using social media as part of medical practice point to its ability to help people stay connected, ...
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 ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: J. Pawlovich, MD July/August 2015
... the small farming community of northern Alberta. Medical practice was a tapestry of clinic and hospital time, house ... time. Some might say it was the golden time of general practice. Whatever it was, goosebumps grow on my skin as I ... expressly requested his surgical skills. And his surgical practice was only one element in the package of general ...