President's Comment /
BY: Kathleen Ross, MD
July/August 2019
... our health care system, whether with divisions of family practice, or facility engagement, or Doctors of BC ...
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 ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Alana Godin
July/August 2019
... by PMHs. As of June 2019, nine divisions of family practice have announced plans to form PCNs in their ... months. Data from physician practices are key to taking a practice to the next level as a PMH and enabling ... Strong EMR data help identify how many patients are in the practice, what conditions those patients have, and the kinds ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Benjamin Ng,
July/August 2019
... or missing chart information and variations in physician practice patterns. This last limitation is especially ...
Obituaries /
BY: Steve Ashwell, MD
September 2019
... most valued assets are our colleagues. In rural general practice few are more valued than those in obstetrics. We ...
Obituaries /
BY: Douglas Hassan, MD
September 2019
... San Diego, success came quickly in his own family medicine practice in North Vancouver. Les practised there for 30 ...
Obituaries
September 2019
... from medicine at UBC in 1971 and initially did general practice in Powell River, BC, and Campbellton, New Brunswick, ... and for making significant contributions to the practice of clinical anesthesiology in Canada. He retired from clinical practice in 2016. For many years Brian was a leader with ...
Obituaries /
BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB
September 2019
... started to practise as a family doctor. With growth of the practice he bought three lots on the opposite side of the ... to deliver a baby. In 1967 I was invited to join the practice, and Dr Tom Wong joined in 1973. We three practised ... they started life together in a small home close to the practice but in due course moved to Panorama Ridge. Geoff and ...
Letters /
BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
September 2019
... to vote in elections for organizations that deal with the practice of medicine, so we shouldn’t complain about the ... costs more and more. The institutions concerned with the practice of medicine (the College, CMPA, Doctors of BC, etc.) ...
News
September 2019
... the GPSC and SGP are expanding their series from new-to-practice to all family doctors and their MOAs. The webinars were first presented to new-to-practice GPs in winter 2018 and spring 2019. Led by physician ... about each webinar: Introduction to MSP Billing for Family Practice: 17 September at 6 p.m. Basic visit (00100 series) ...