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Letters / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd July/August 2006
... means of transportation to the local emergency department. My colleagues and I frequently receive notice from family ... early therapy. Importantly, they can also bypass a local hospital in favor of a cardiac centre with a cath lab if need ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2006
... a few expressions of concern. I remain very respectful of my fellow candidates, who put in many years of service to the ... to the poor. User fees and co-payments for physician and hospital services exist in all parts of our system, including ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July/August 2006
I’ve had the sense for quite some time that my writing has been sounding more like an Andy Rooney rant ... this is most likely a reflection of the average length of my terminal teleomeres, but after some recent events that ... component to effective, safe decision-making in medical/hospital politics in the past. I worry that the willingness ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2006
... want to be the president?’ A few years after I opened my first practice (in Trail) I realized I was letting my patients down with alarming frequency. I sat with them in my office, their homes, or at the hospital, explaining why I couldn’t get them what they ...
Obituaries / BY: W.H. Barclay, MD September 2006
... of Manitoba in 1942 and interned at Vancouver General Hospital, then practised in Vancouver until 1969. Kay was ... and in fact delivered me 60 years ago. She became my inspiration to enter into a career in medicine. In 1969, ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... from your resume, like you’ve moved quite a lot. Yes. My dad was a small-town GP in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. We ... Salt Lake, and when I was 12 we moved to Winnipeg, where my Dad took an academic position. Then when I was 18 we moved ... in Toronto for a couple of years before we moved, so I had hospital privileges, which are like courtesy privileges. I ...
Back Page / BY: E.F. Vreede, MD, October 2006
... Granger Avery and I had done rounds in the little 10-bed hospital that also functioned as my place to sleep for 6 weeks, and I was getting my stuff together for our trip by floatplane to an outlying ...
Premise / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2006
... I can’t help but apply some of the basics of my branch of medicine to the task tonight. One of those ... But I know from personal introspection, my colleagueship with physicians, and my clinical practice of ... He became the pathologist for Montreal General Hospital, if not the city of Montreal. Students found his ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2006
... standing at the doctors’ entrance when I arrived at the hospital this morning. “Pardon?” was all I could stammer ... asked me to give you this refund.” I was still shaking my head with disbelief when I arrived on the medical ward. I couldn’t find my patient, Mr Smith, in his room so I asked the nurse where ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jill Franklin, BA, December 2006
... with a known or suspected brain injury, should be given a hospital “head sheet” [6-8]  before discharge that ... for people with mTBI. When an mTBI diagnosis is made in hospital, ERBIS should be informed and the patient contacted. ... San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books; 2000. Osborne CL. Over My Head: A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury. Kansas City, ...
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