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Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... there are few situations that I have not encountered in my office. Recently I was convinced that my list of exceptions would be reduced to one. Initial ... ensure urgent transfer of the man to the Royal Columbian Hospital emergency department before he suffered ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2008
My first up-close and per­sonal experience with the ... of a doctor carrying a medical bag.  I was standing in my office parking lot at the time holding my medical bag and ... prominently displayed on the main bulletin board of the hospital, on the door of my office, and stuck under one of ...
Editorials / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD March 2008
... disease (COPD). COPD costs society money and scarce hospital beds, but costs the patient far more in terms of ... is like “spending 10 years drowning,” to quote one of my patients; progressive dyspnea gradually erodes the ... of the huge impact that exacerbations of COPD have on hospital resources, being one of the most frequent reasons ...
Obituaries / BY: Guy Winch, MBChB March 2008
... who died in December. Reid was born at the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto. He was brought up and went to school in ... 1943.There followed a year of internship at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, and on a weekend trip, returning on ... and art. He and Esther had traveled widely, and he was, in my opinion, an “educated doctor” and a delightful ...
Letters / BY: Nancy Van Laeken, MD, April 2008
... resident on your service when you were working at the UBC Hospital and enjoyed the time that I worked with you because ... send a short note to acknowledge your contribution to my training, which continues to this day.  —Nancy Van ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
... delivered 12 babies—at that rate you’re in and out of hospital all the time.”  But 5 years ago, with the ... delivering babies. “I have a lot of young women in my practice and when I sent them elsewhere to have their ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2008
... institutions. This was not a prescient revelation on my part, as most of us graying physicians were acutely aware ... describing during our very brief (and getting briefer) hospital interactions.  Since that time the situation has ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG May 2008
... Canadians annually experience an adverse event while in hospital, and that close to 70000 of these events are ... I’m a gynecologist, not a real doctor) and then offered my services to the flight attendants. As I got up to attend ... the man sitting across the aisle from me tweaked my arm. “I’m a lawyer” he said. “I’ll be here if ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... in the mid-1970s and I was in psychiatric practice in a hospital in the lower mainland of British Columbia.  Making my rounds one morning in the psychiatric ward, I was informed ... there silently for a minute or two and then announced my name. He turned around slowly, with face solemn and ...
Obituaries / BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH June 2008
... I first met her over our cadavers; we were side by side, my last name being Elwood and Mimi’s being Divinsky.  Mimi moved to Toronto’s Wo­men’s College Hospital for her family medicine residency. She then ...