Beyond Medicine /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
July/August 2022
... a week with the colorectal surgery team at St. Paul’s Hospital. Here are some of her comments about the program: ... some of the more complex cases. “When I was completing my residency (finished in 2010) the number of laparoscopic ...
Obituaries /
BY: Jack and Ruth Albrecht
September 2022
... was educated at Oxford University and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. He met his wife, Pamela, at Oxford in ... have to check in constantly. “I recall taking off on my bike on my own for long periods of time (without a helmet, of ...
Obituaries /
BY: David M. Lawson, PhD, RPsych
September 2022
... fellowship in respiratory medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver. She was appointed as a clinical ... the original members of the AIDS care team at St. Paul’s Hospital and saw virtually all the patients with HIV-related ... loving, accomplished adults with the help of my husband” [2012;54:438]. This was especially important to ...
Editorials /
BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB
September 2022
... about when Dave worked in the emergency department of our hospital. He had to remove a nail from a patient’s leg, ... me with a classic piece of his wit. After introducing my new resident to him, Dave said to me with a straight face, ... were allowing you residents again since the incident!” My resident, who didn’t know Dave and his sense of humor, ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
October 2022
... and provided allowances for abortion, when performed in hospital, for circumstances in which the health of the mother ... contemporary challenges to a procedure that, throughout my medical career, I have taken for granted as a treatment ... I had the privilege of working with Dr Romalis during my obstetrics-gynecology residency, and I would encourage ...
Obituaries /
BY: Richard N. Merchant, MD, FRCPC
November 2022
... Following graduation he was appointed at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), where he practised for 30 years, and to UBC, ... mentor in such a subtle manner that he built confidence in my own dubious abilities. I particularly admired how he never ... anesthesiologists who had the great fortune to have him as my medical school mentor and was able to seek his guidance ...
Obituaries /
BY: Lorne David Porayko, MD, FRCPC, CIM
December 2022
... his residency, Orest accepted a job at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster and settled into a house in ... of grateful patients, some of whom I would come across in my own medical practice decades later. They would always tell ...