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Obituaries / BY: David Harder, MD, July/August 2012
Dr Larry Fenton  1934–2012 My lab partner and friend Larry Fenton died on 12 May 2012 ... Gordon Heydon and Jerry Philippson, at the full-service hospital. Built in 1899, it was for many years the only hospital between Victoria and Nanaimo. It was an exciting ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC July/August 2012
... the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital. He served as president of the BCMA from 2000 to ... What do you consider your greatest achievement? My wonderful daughter. What is your idea of perfect ... What is your most marked characteristic? I just asked my wife. She says it is intellectual curiosity. What do you ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2012
... was delivered by his uncle in 1920 at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC. His dad, always known as HL, was a ... in Williams Lake, he was a beacon. He always returned my emergency telephone calls and helped me and my colleagues in difficult maternity emergency situations in ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2012
... the response I got to the quizzical stare I directed at my new running partner. He had just done a reasonable Usain ... after struggling for most of our lunch-time run.  I met my mentor over 20 years ago while doing a locum for one of ... delivered babies, worked in emergency, saw his patients in hospital, and provided innumerable hours of on-call service. ...
Letters / BY: H. Martin Gough, MD October 2012
... ago, each day I made a point of visiting those patients in hospital on whom I had operated, until they were discharged. ... them and knowing they had not been forgotten or abandoned. My wife was recently in hospital with a fracture of the neck ... her at all during the time she remained in the hospital—my wife certainly has no recollection of having been seen by ...
Letters / BY: John de Couto, MD, October 2012
Once more I am justified in my respect for Dr R. Gallagher—I very much appreciated her ... what I also experienced when I was actively involved in hospital care and palliative care wards. I often wondered at ... One shining exception oc­curred recently when one of my frail patients ran into difficulties—not ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA, December 2012
... and identity: Road to Re­covery for Schizophrenia; My Story and My Addiction; Growing Towards a Happy Balance; The Medicine ... Children and Family Development (MCFD), and BC Women’s Hospital’s Fir Square Combined Care Unit led to an infant ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD December 2012
During my many years of fam­ily practice, nothing was more ... an­gelic than starting each Christmas morning checking on my new patients who were just beginning their life in this world. Every year, the nursery in my hospital wraps the newborn babies in Christmas stockings, ...
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