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President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, July/August 2007
... Making the change from 33 years of full-time general practice in Terrace to a totally different job, if even only ... retention and recruitment of rural doctors; the General Practice Services Committee, whose job it is to find ways of ...
News July/August 2007
... the June issue of the  BCMJ. Agreement news update GPSC Practice support program The workshops held earlier this ... a patient registry to more efficiently manage their practice and provide better care for patients. • Using the ... and advice in a group setting that is efficient for their practice and provide patients with the support needed to ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... way (viz Dr Rachel Remen, professor of family practice, University of San Francisco). I have seen ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) July/August 2007
... be most helpful in addressing these issues in everyday practice. All too often, patients with mental health issues, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle P. Wong, MD July/August 2007
... However, there are no randomized trials to support this practice. Given the nature and risks involved in the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP September 2007
... you must establish the following engineering and work practice controls: • If clinically appropriate, supply ... recap used needles by hand, despite the recommended practice of disposing of used needles without their caps, ...
Obituaries / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD September 2007
... west to the Lower Mainland of BC in 1951, where he set up practice in New Westminster and Surrey. Over the next four decades he established a thriving full-time general practice and worked as a Transport Canada - designated ...
News / BY: Geraldine Vance, APR, September 2007
... Bill Cavers, Ms Tregillus co-chairs the BCMA/MoH General Practice Service Committee (GPSC), originally created in 2002 ... developed a two-pronged strategy: financial incentives and practice support.  “The UK experience shows incentives alone don’t work, so we’ve designed practice supports to enable evidence-based care,” says Dr ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, September 2007
... that threatening? Those of us who work in general medical practice are acutely aware that we have few tools to treat ... created the revolving door of today’s typical medical practice. We cannot afford to be rigid, expounding the fixed ... created them.” — Stephen Malthouse, MD    General Practice, Denman Island Letters Our foe: the fixed idea ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD September 2007
... me once more to the breach (no pun intended). When I began practice at the old Grace Hospital almost 50 years ago ... question or criticism from peers. In the later years of my practice at Richmond Hospital, when making weekend rounds for ...