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Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... having worked for 15 years in BC. As a colorectal surgeon, my practice is predominantly at St. Paul’s Hospital, where I’ve looked after a population of patients sent to me by colleagues around the province. My other big role is in medical education. I’ve been ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD January/February 2024
... physicians providing this type of care. While some of my family physician colleagues feel pressure to maintain the ... beds and short-term subacute care beds, transitioning from hospital to home, they feel overworked and undercompensated ... in this predicament. To that end, what would make my life as a family physician easier is a common platform ...
Obituaries / BY: Janet Green, MD January/February 2024
My good friend Dr John Drummond Fitzpatrick (Fitz) graduated ... University in 1973. He interned at Calgary General Hospital, where he met his long-time friend and recently ... at Courtenay Medical Associates and St. Joseph’s General Hospital in Comox for the next 35-plus years and was well ...
Letters / BY: Rainer Borkenhagen, MD January/February 2024
... of women in the MD profession, but also of some men. My life partner and I married in 1969, the year I entered ... to divorce. I was (as was typical) overly committed to my practice, and she had the family burden, to the detriment ... this technology. I worked in various aspects of medicine—hospital ambulatory care and extended care for neuromuscular ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2024
After a few years in practice, I witnessed some of my older colleagues give up their hospital privileges. I recall listening to their stories at ... the term was coined in the 1970s, it was not part of my lexicon in the 1990s. I tried to avoid overworking by ...
Letters / BY: Lisa Veres, MD April 2024
... was no investment in sustainable action. For example, my colleagues and I created a care transitions committee 13 ... created by primary care physicians and uploaded into the hospital EMR. To incentivize the work, our Shared Care ... Family Physician Payment Model has given us hope, and my colleagues and I are working with BC’s Digital Health ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... the careful supervision provided by preceptors and other hospital staff. This response dismisses realistic concerns. ... tale. I can recall a case-based learning session in my first year where the discussion turned to diagnostic ... nights for Northern Medical Program students during my training, where I was struck by the pervasiveness of ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Tyson A. Boettcher, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... otherwise be active without debilitating knee pain. Is my BMI too high? Any physician who cares for patients with ... and surgical complications, as well as longer stays in hospital.[ 12 ] Although patients with an elevated BMI are at ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... lack of adequate doctors, nurses, operating rooms, hospital beds, CT, and MRI, and the list goes on. How do we ... lessons have we learned from years of scarce resources in hospital-based and specialty care? How have we been creative ... capacity to see patients increased by more than 50%! In my last President’s Comment, I spoke about the necessary ...
Letters / BY: Daniel Y. Dodek, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2024
The 69th Annual St. Paul’s Hospital CME Conference for Primary Care Physicians was held ... patients take time to express their gratitude, it fills my emotional bucket. It is nice to hear positive feedback ... ignite! —Daniel Y. Dodek, MD, CCFP, FCFP St. Paul’s Hospital CME Conference for Primary Care Physicians, ...