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Editorials / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... improve rectal cancer outcomes. We present new data on  practice patterns for management  and on  pathology ... in 1996 and provide possible strategies for changing practice patterns in order to improve outcomes. Specifically, previous practice patterns brought patients urgently for conventional ...
Letters / BY: A.J. Walter, MB September 2003
... my 62nd year. It is hoped that I will be able to continue practice at least until the age of 65. The children that I ... newborns to me for general medical care. If I were to stop practice in my 66th year, College policy would require me to ... arrange alternatives, such as upon retirement or leaving practice, placing their medical records in the care of a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brian McGowan, MD October 2003
... practitioners dropping hospital privileges. Burnaby Family Practice brought concerns to the attention of the SFHR Board ... absorption of these programs into the Department of Family Practice, development of a chief hospitalist at each site to ... value of all programs and the foundation of the group practice. While parameters were set, it was clearly ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD November 2003
... “refused to undergo labor.” In my later years of practice I was presented with a few such cases. I was able to ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD November 2003
... countless patients “pro bono publico.” Medical practice in those days was fulfilling and pleasant, and we ...
Letters / BY: Dorothy M. Goresky, MD November 2003
As a physician retired for 15 years after 23 years of practice at the Student Health Service of UBC, I couldn’t ... incredibly expensive facilities. Is today’s medical practice as fulfilling as it was for me? Comprehensive ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Koehle, MD December 2003
... appropriate warm-up is 15 minutes of activity prior to the practice or competition. The exercise intensity should be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC December 2003
... to the drug or 100% adhering to the placebo. This is, in practice, not the case as “contamination” of the two ...
College Library / BY: Linda Einblau December 2003
... Syndromes: Evidence Based Guidelines for Primary Care Practice  (Peter Manu. New York: Haworth Medical Press, ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Goldberger, MD December 2003
... adage. I wonder if it also applies to our style of medical practice in 21st century Western medicine. An old friend of ... poor substitute. When time was less of a luxury in general practice, I would occasionally entertain medical students at ... who are rapidly losing these essential capabilities. The practice of medicine will always be a combination of art and ...