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Letters / BY: Jeff Purkis, MD March 2001
... to this letter:  1 ,  2 ,  3 I just returned home from my 4-hour shift in our walk-in clinic. As in many communities, our hospital-based GPs opened a walk-in several years ago to ... baby-boomers. The problem is really quite straightforward. My day starts at 7:30 a.m. and usually ends at 7 p.m. I see a ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP March 2001
... readers of the  BC Medical Journal  have brought to my attention an anonymous letter printed in the  BC Medical ... because of an equity issue is advised to contact my office immediately and we arrange an alternate interview. ... learn clinical skills and decision making in the teaching hospital, move to experience rural practice between second ...
Letters / BY: Michael Alms, MB March 2001
... and uncaring sausage machine. I regret to say that in its hospital services that may sometimes be true. It was with ... wait that long nor were they treated so inconsiderately. My wife was recently admitted to a Vancouver teaching ... ago the doctor would have had nothing effective to offer my wife. He could have done little more than sit by her bed, ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Goldberger, MD June 2001
... to one in four outside of the major urban centres. At my office I receive two to three orphan calls per day, but ... to accept a new patient in the past 5 years. Many of my colleagues have closed their practices. Many others, who ... syndrome. The hospitalist assumes care for in-hospital patients who do not have a family physician with ...
Letters / BY: J.L. Cochlin, MD June 2001
... to inquire as to whether I had yet found a replacement for my recently departed associate. I advised the patient that I ... no requirement to provide after-hours coverage or ongoing hospital care for patients. I then pointed out that I had ... Abbotsford area, we have over the past few years, lost, in my estimation, nine family practitioner equivalents with no ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister Browne, PhD July / August 2001
... what is right and wrong. Both reactions are mistaken. My aim here is to explain why they are mistaken by describing ... significant deficits is born; a stranger is brought to hospital with a severe stroke; an elderly person becomes ... the way money is spent and risks accepted elsewhere in any hospital? Can physicians insist on their judgment of what is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Davidicus Wong, MD July / August 2001
... for our patients.   Ethics consultations At Burnaby Hospital, our Ethical Resources Committee has been involved ... and ethics in general. I post articles on these topics in my reception and examination rooms. Some patients prefer ... permission and given to patients] and recommend that my patients carry it in their wallets in case of an ...
Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD July / August 2001
... can remember, it was understood that surgeons worked at a hospital and provided coverage of the emergency department 24 ... a year. In return for this they were able to work at the hospital and were able to have elective OR time and access to ... ill patients of British Columbia. There is no question in my mind that the surgeons of British Columbia have kept their ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Bernat, MD July / August 2001
... and walk-in clinics are a response to this change. It is my opinion that they are neither good nor bad and they must ... no one trying to develop a new vision or paradigm. I see my colleagues working very hard trying to improve our present ... the following: “...unless there is a policy at the local hospital which keeps out family doctors, e.g., VGH.” I ...
Premise / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD July / August 2001
... have an on-site audit of their medical records? “But my patients are sicker!” Several factors may determine why ... codes contained on physicians’ billing records and hospital discharge abstracts. The adjusted clinical group ... after removing the effects of morbidity. Premise Hold it—my patients are sicker! ...