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News&Notes / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2010
... that time she worked with the EMR vendor and IT support people to ensure that the system was responsive to the ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2010
... may be that, given the many opportunities for input that people now have (phone, e-mail, regular surveys, elections), ... the motion about bicycle helmets. And yet we still see people of all ages disregarding the law, riding without a ... I get so worked up about this issue? Because I work with people who have brain injuries.  “Most people outside our ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2009
... place of many informal exchanges among colleagues. When people stop talking to each other barriers can go up, ... group that will look at the care gaps for these young people and the professionals who work with them. The school ... the pulse of a diverse social and ethnic group of young people must be closely involved. In the school we are working ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... thing you could do academically. I always wanted to help people, but I can’t really say I had a deep sense of what ... my intellectual and academic longings, I enjoyed the people, and I thought dealing with medical issues would be a nice area to interact with people.  I’ve always liked solving problems, and also I ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2008
... are always looking for ways to improve. Health promotion People in BC want to take responsibility for their own health ... • We eat better. • We exercise more than most people in the world.   • We have a world-class cancer ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2008
... do it for? From age 10 until 27—through most of school. People ask me how I trained and competed in university and ... something that really interested me. The advice I give to people contemplating going into medicine is, If your ... What’s your favorite thing to do as a doctor? Helping people maintain their health is my biggest focus. I enjoy ...
News&Notes / BY: Mel Petreman, MD, July/August 2008
... break down. It is, therefore, essential that at least two people in the clinic be interested and keen in learning how ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... gray hair. That’s typical of medicine anywhere—young people have got a different idea of lifestyle. They don’t ... a democracy, and the majority rules. We’re not squashing people who vote for or against a particular thing—but once ... say fee issues, or a big fight with government, people come. If they don’t come, I read it as a vote of ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... for medicine. So moving all over the place like that, people always ask, “Was your dad one step ahead of the ... move to BC; in Rossland, where we live now, there are 3500 people. So it’s quite small, and Trail has fewer than 10 ... of that is this longitudinal relationship that I have with people. I know their families, I know their problems, I’ve ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... that’s much of what we do, of course, is help people in health crises. End-of-life care is also very ... of technology into clinical medicine been so slow? Some people look at physicians as being slow to adopt technology, ... The Supreme Court says there’s a problem; these are wise people, and we should sit down and discuss it in public. ...