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Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP September 2005
... students and residents interact with on the wards of the hospital may have no training in palliative care. Without ... “depressing” and sad work with everyone who is dying. My favorite response has become a quote from Kahlil ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC September 2005
... declared a moratorium on creating new subspecialties. In my day, the object was to produce a surgeon who could cope ... scope of a general surgeon in the tertiary care teaching hospital is rather different from that of a general surgeon ...
Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... appropriate admission for basic care are unable to access hospital is a disgrace. Second, there is no villain; the ... very sick patients pose no problem in an organized system. My recent collection of Flashes begins with an item from the ... able to cope. So what is to be done? I thought a lot about my early mentors and what their response would be to this ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD October 2005
... president of the BC Medical Association. What crosses my desk in the president’s office are issues that have ... that I am required to think about and act upon makes my job as your president enormously challenging and ... see my patients in my Kelowna office, look after them in hospital, and visit them in their nursing homes. There is no ...
Letters / BY: David Brough, MD November 2005
... worse. (Commenting also results in a delay in payment.) My practice is to only see patients that the nurses want me ... for the same situation. GPs have already dropped out of hospital work because of being fiscally abused, only to see ...
News November 2005
... a family practice residency program used at St. Paul’s Hospital. His practical and timely faculty development ... program for IMGs that he developed at St. Paul’s Hospital. Dr Andrew Sear,  CPSBC Award of Excellence In ... in Quesnel who did everything well. It was high praise and my first knowledge of Dr Andrew Sear, than, as now, ...
Obituaries / BY: Jonathan L. Kline, MD November 2005
... training in psychiatry and neurology at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, DC, and at Duke University Medical ... note, he wrote, “It is easier for me to say nothing with my Mont Blanc pen, than with an e-mail; that’s called ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS December 2005
... pages. $34.95. This book was recently referred to me by my family physician. I am a 63-year-old man who underwent ... felt ill and somewhat helpless. However, daily visits from my doctor and the surgeon reassured me that my condition was ... Seven days after my operation, I was discharged from the hospital and returned home. I began chemotherapy a month ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD December 2005
... the need to refresh the pool of young talented docs in the hospital hierarchy and the need to move talented docs with ... Well, I don’t know about the rest of you but I can hear my clock ticking and I’m going retire on my own terms before some damn bureaucrat sends me a letter. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC December 2005
... 2 years as a voluntary physician in the British Military Hospital while Nadia, a gifted linguist, worked as an ... ethics and introducing it into gastroenterology worldwide; my contribution to gastroenterology in the North and of course my contribution to the northern medical school.” ...
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