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Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD January/February 2006
... other] criteria” then no further treatment is required. My question is, Why delay pharmacological intervention when ... succumb to a cardiovascular event. In an effort to prevent my patients from ever seeing a cardiologist, I ... Andrew Ignaszewski MD Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul’s Hospital David Wood, MD University of British Columbia ...
Editorials / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD March 2006
... his or her daily routine. For example, the pharmacy at the hospital where I work sent around a newsletter with two very ... simpler, and very much safer—and no one needs to read my writing. The situation on busy hospital wards, of course, is more serious and complicated. ...
Obituaries / BY: O.N.M. Panton, MB March 2006
... and, subsequently, the chief of staff at St. Vincent’s Hospital. He was a superb general surgeon, revered by his ... young, we spent many of the holiday seasons together, and my sons called him Uncle Ron, because he and his family were ... wife, Anna, he asked me to be his best man at the wedding. My family and I joined him and his family for what proved to ...
Premise / BY: Carol Pfefferkorn, MD, April 2006
... numbers of family physicians giving up their hospital privileges, the large number of “orphaned” hospital patients has become a significant concern. Should ... enables the family physician to anticipate obstacles that my affect the patient’s recovery and prevent successful ...
Letters / BY: Garry R. Jenkins, MD, May 2006
... for seeing the elderly and the very young, obstetrics, hospital and nursing home visits, and minor surgical ... their practices to become hospitalists in Lions Gate Hospital for a salary of $175000 for a 48-week work year. ... earns (I don’t know the figures for this). Judging from my family practice, a bonus of about $50000 per year would be ...
Premise / BY: Michael K. McIsaac, BA, May 2006
... describe what mental health isn’t. I would not want my personal wellness to be stated in terms of “not ... or grounded. Should an MRI or CT scan reveal that my neuroanatomy is abnormal or that there are holes in my ... Psychiatry, at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal to submit a report on mental health ...
Obituaries / BY: Kenneth Berry, MD, June 2006
... a senior internship in internal medicine at Shaughnessy Hospital, a new staff member arrived on our service. I ... long before I was treated to his stern questioning of my motives for ordering a skull X-ray on one of his patients ... later, during the same rotation and once I had absorbed my lessons and softened my opinion of him, David told me that ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2006
... to review history-taking and physical examination on a hospital patient. We would each have a chance to show our ... sure they were normal? “Yes,” I reiterated. To my dismay I was informed that the patient had one glass eye. ... done a proper exam, but I was doubly embarrassed because my father was a GP on faculty who was coordinating the ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2006
... of what I now suspect was very annoying behavior for my fellow queue-ers, I began to wonder if it was just me or whether doctors as a group don’t wait very well. Then my superego kicked in and conveniently validated my premise ... doctors are rushing to get to the next patient, the next hospital, the next night without call, and, most importantly, ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS June 2006
... This did not trouble him, or indeed anyone else in the hospital, because he was far and away the best and most ... series of them as he was wont to crash them. On entering a hospital ward, a comet’s tail (myself included) struggling ... Good morning!” to all present. He was immortalized in my memory by the late actor James Robertson Justice in the ...