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Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB June 2022
... there is no incentive for family physicians to work in a practice that provides full-service longitudinal care. First, ... family physicians for the work they did outside of their practice—for example, committee work for the association. ... compensating us for the added costs of running an office practice, over and above what family physicians who don’t ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) May 2022
... you are never going to see a new privately built family practice in Victoria again.” Nonetheless, recruiting ... Dr Velikovsky and her husband is expected to “build a practice panel from the more elderly and complex patients of ... While such patients have always been part of general practice, they require considerable expertise, patience, and ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) December 2022
... could hardly be more disparate, in both philosophy and practice, from the traditional techniques employed by ... In fact, Western thinking is so ingrained that, in practice, it constitutes our only philosophical and political ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD June 2022
... family doctors who are empowered by divisions of family practice at the grassroots level. Many don’t realize that ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC October 2022
... Szasz.[ 4 ] Although abortion is not a component of my practice, I regularly prescribe Mifegymiso (mifepristone plus ... the generations of physicians and advocates who shaped the practice of modern gynecology in Canada. It is because of ...
Letters / BY: Ruth Habte, MD September 2022
... care system, and to end the inequities we encounter in practice. Universal access to contraception is a vital ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC September 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 ...