Letters /
BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC
July/August 2009
... problems that have almost completely disappeared from his practice (“Let’s support naturopathy,” BCMJ ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Sadiq Abdulla, BA,
July/August 2009
... setting under the tutelage of an established rural family practice physician. The program has been in operation since ... a crucial role in exposing all students to rural medical practice. In the rural clerkship, students spend one-to-one ...
News&Notes /
BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla
July/August 2009
... proposes, and implements initiatives that will improve the practice of specialty medicine and the way it is compensated ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
July/August 2009
... can save the day. When it came time to open their own practice in Langley in 2003, Drs Leo and Flora Wong, both ... to electronic. Then, in 2007, Dr Young Suh joined the practice. He had worked in a clinic where most of the ... all of Young’s charts. Today the boxes are gone and the practice is again paperless. For Leo, the major advantage of ...
President's Comment /
BY: Brian Brodie, MD
July/August 2009
Aside from having a busy GP practice in the Fraser Valley, I have developed an ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC,
September 2009
... planned to go back to Sligo to join his father in family practice. Unfortunately, his father passed away in 1948 ...
Back Page /
BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP,
September 2009
... drifts off to sleep. I think of these experiences in my practice as I deliver bad news, or when I am there for ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Samir K. Sinha, MD, DPhil, FRCPC,
September 2009
... setting and promotes interprofessional collaborative practice. While this may sound logical and obvious, we are ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Greg Dines,
September 2009
... to launch across BC in September—open to all GPs A new Practice Support Program (PSP) module is set to launch across ... says Liza Kallstrom, BCMA lead, change management and practice support. “The complexity of the symptoms often ... of the joint BCMA-Ministry of Health Services General Practice Services Committee (GPSC). For more information on ...
Interviews /
BY: Jay Draper
September 2009
... from the University of Calgary in 1986. He set up general practice first in Whitecourt, Alberta, moving 1 year later to ... after his move to Chilliwack in 1998—where he remains in practice—he became a Board delegate and has been active in ... variety, so I completed the year, then went into family practice. I felt I had the best of both worlds—I had a year ...