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Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... time—I was the first chair of our division of family practice, then I got involved with Shared Care and helped get ... councils and so on. And then the divisions of family practice started up locally just around about the time the ... finish. It was so different for us. You could go do family practice and then go back and specialize later. That ...
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, 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 ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2017
... idea of community and having a variety of things to do in practice. When I did a rural practice elective in Osoyoos in the South Okanagan that ... But I was very happy there. I had moved into a supportive practice group with a couple of people who were stellar ...
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 ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
... family physician with a focus on geriatric general practice. A last-minute decision to pursue medicine led Dr ... where after 2 decades of satisfying work running his practice he’s also in a role that fulfills everything else ... these people are cool!   Having spent 27 years in general practice, 23 of them in Vancouver, how have you seen primary ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
Almost 60 years ago when I started a rural practice in Williams Lake, British Columbia, I found some of ...
Back Page / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, October 2014
... and applauded Dr Watts for the lonely studies in family practice that helped him describe the many masks worn by this ... He had lost his marriage, his orchards, and a wealthy practice from misfortune. He hid his "malignant sadness"[ 2 ] ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... began in 1995, including 10 years on the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) and 8 years as its ... Australia, which is when I worked in Cairns doing family practice and worked in the Cairns-based hospital. Then we ... time. We did so many fantastic things to improve family practice. It was inspirational to be there. Are there any ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... something I hadn’t seen before in 28 years of practice, or something that other emerg docs on shift at the ... if we could better communicate the work of the General Practice Services Committee, Shared Care Committee and Specialist Services Committee so that their best practice recommendations would be adopted across the ...