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President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... the faded black keys and the clack of letters branding the page. Mistakes happened, but there was white-out. Weeks later ... in my area, pushes news, sets the temperature of my home, and plays almost every song ever recorded. Innovation ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD June 2017
... drips on a tin roof at night, interrupting sleep. The 30-page provincial application for persons with disabilities is ... are pursuing the adoption of the Patient Medical Home. Ambitious doctors or civil servants will not advance ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanda Hill, MBChB, FRCPC March 2017
... making is summarized in the  Figure  on the following page. The process begins with an evaluation of frailty and ... and postoperative complication, discharge to nursing home, and length of hospital stay with reasonable predictive ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... allows health authorities to provide equipment in the home when appropriate. While such benefits support patients ... community, the team may consist of the family physician, home care nurse, pharmacist, and neighbors. Other centres may ... Care Benefits: www.esdc.gc.ca/en/ei/compassionate/index.page Source of information about benefits available to ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... of my colleagues who had the weekend off. There was a page over the hospital intercom—“Dr Ruddiman to the ... considering the empathy that was generated in our home I’m disappointed in myself when I think back. Having ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... an estimated 70% to 75% of care to people receiving home care. That translates to roughly 8 million Canadians ... friends, or neighbors. You are well positioned to share a page from the resource pad included with this issue of the BC ...
Back Page / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2015
... with his comrades in the Fox and Hounds, he brought them home to supper, beer bubbles clinging to his magnificent ... the froth that once adorned it at the Fox and Hounds. Back Page The magnificent moustache ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... emerged and medical practice began to shift from home to office and hospital. Internal medicine and general ... of BC Guide to Fees  to a 1950s version with a one-page wee index,[ 2 ] the differences are glaring. It’s like ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... ventricular tachycardia. His family doctor discussed the home “do not attempt to resuscitate” (DNAR) order, but ... developed and transmitted to the patient’s doctors and home care team. Multiple visits are often required to control ... The authors corrected an error that appeared on page 227, paragraph 1, line 12 in the original article ...
Back Page / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, October 2014
... a minor procedure like pushing a trochar trembling home or wrestling with a drip. I asked him how he maintained ... tolerate themselves enough to want to live and give. Back Page The enemy within ...