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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: 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 ...
News October 2015
... of the resource’s clinical tools and articles on their home and office computer, as well as via the UpToDate mobile ... request and click Submit. UpToDate displays a confirmation page. If you want to view your certificate immediately as a ... click the View/Print Certificate link on the confirmation page. To register for access to UpToDate or to learn more ...
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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2014
... HIAs often exist as stand-alone reviews. Closer to home, the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Environment in ... Gas Development was quick to disregard this nearly 300-page analysis.[ 9 ] Clearly, advocacy is needed from ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC January/February 2014
... [Dr Terwiel died 4 January 2014; see the article on  page 36 . —ED] It is in this context that I reviewed the ... Shot by a jealous husband. •    In my bed at home. •    Quickly. •    Instantly, no pain or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC July/August 2012
... ability to allow anticipated natural deaths to occur at home, in hospice, and in residential care under the care of ... locally for immediate use. For more information, see page 301, “Using methadone for pain: Practice points.” ...
News December 2012
Ten years ago on 25 October the 500-page report of the Standing Committee on Senate Social ... by some provinces. Recommendations in favor of a national home care program and the expansion of medicare to cover ...
Letters / BY: Michael A. Ross, MD, FRCSC July/August 2011
... office practice 6 years ago and may be away from fax and home for up to 6 weeks. Some of these faxed referrals are ... I now work only within the hospital. At the bottom of each page of the alphabetical list of doctors in the College’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, October 2011
... subacute unit) could be beneficial or whether a discharge home with added formal home supports is warranted.  Geriatric patients take longer ... 6 ] It is available on the Resources and Publications page of the CCSMH website ( www.ccsmh.ca ) along with a guide ...