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Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC January/February 2003
... the planes are flying somewhere else, the drive to Terrace Hospital, which is the nearest referral hospital for Dease Lake in BC, is a painful and ... task forces, and focus groups that I finally gave up. In my case, it was accepting the fact that, for 45 minutes of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP March 2003
Introduction With my background in movement disorders, I have had plenty of ... not buying the right type of real estate. The following is my take on why most physicians should consider owning ... of renting or leasing an office. (If you are mainly hospital based, this may not apply.) Certainly, there is ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Shore, MD, CCFP March 2003
Whereas there is money to pay the hospitalist to see my patients but not the same money to pay me, their family ... them. Whereas there is money to pay another doctor to take my patient as an orphan patient but not the same money to pay ... doctor is assigned to them or when they end up in a hospital other than the one for which I have an appointment ...
Letters / BY: Michael Priest, MD April 2003
... might well be your response! However, the delay between my contact with the general surgeon and operation was less ... aware that I was a retired doctor and the staff of the hospital, Powell River General Hospital, were competent and friendly. The hospital’s phone ...
Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD May 2003
During the dispute between the Vancouver Hospital and the surgeons concerning the lack of surgical ... that forced them to take such drastic steps and forced the hospital and region into a more appropriate division of the ... the Registrar of the College would argue “that is not my job,” but since we cannot seem to trust the government ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2003
... last few weeks a number of patients that I have seen in my office have expressed frustration and concern because they ... Until recently, a large percentage provided full on-call hospital coverage and were actively involved in all aspects ... the care of patients and their families and I would find my job difficult, if not impossible, if a FP was not part of ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD June 2003
... nursing education deteriorated when it was moved from the hospital ward to the university classroom. In my later years of practice it seemed that many new nurses ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD September 2003
... the transfer of medical and nursing education from the hospital bedside to the university and college classroom ( ... striding swiftly down the polished linoleum of Shaughnessy Hospital followed by his gaggle of white-jacketed students. ... [The thread upon his overcoat was bare]. It has been my experience that the finest teachers have been consistently ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD October 2003
... there is another assumption, and this is where I had my most recent sudden realization. I have assumed in the past ... care for a family member and was informed that my assumption was wrong. At that point I had a EUREKA! ... of the elderly individuals she was ushering out of the hospital virtually every day and who had no or extremely ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD November 2003
... terms?” ( BCMJ 2003; 45[7]:304 ) (It seems that I have my own private devil’s advocate. Perhaps I should feel ... I ran a clinical teaching program at the old Grace Hospital for over 15 years. Of course we were proud of our ...