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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2014
Medical drama script excerpt: Scene 1: Quiet post-op hospital room where healthy 60-year-old marathon runner lies ... stammers the increasingly alarmed patient. “Didn’t my appendectomy go well? Why would my heart stop?” “It went fine, but we have to fill out ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG January/February 2014
My first serious surgical experience was on my second day as an intern (or “junior resident,” as we ... I was on call for the surgical unit in a regional referral hospital, and my surgical consultant had just returned from a ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, MD January/February 2014
... on the destination, the journey is missed.  During my first year, one of my instructors impressed upon the class the importance of ... students and family medicine residents at Kelowna General Hospital also got involved in the program, setting up ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... in the 7-Eleven parking lot in Burns Lake, BC. My wife Leslie and I were returning from a windsurfing ... Williams Lake to Bella Coola. Each of those towns has a hospital. Tatlayoko Lake is about 35 km south of Tatla Lake ... from the local helicopter pilot about overloading with all my medical “junk,” but in that case, I was very grateful ...
News&Notes / BY: Chris Fraser, MD, January/February 2014
... that of a much younger man with much work still to do. To my complete amazement I hear him thanking me: “Thank you to ... activists, I was on an obstetrical elective in a black hospital in Durban. My partner Stephanie took to the pediatric wards caring for ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2014
... retired doc. It can be due to motor failure and brakes, as my humor and satire loses horsepower and grinds to a halt. Is my clutch slipping? The power is gone and patches of oil ... in. I could smell the epoxy cement in the Kelowna General Hospital surgery recovery room. They said they used a full ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD March 2014
... it could potentially draw physicians away from clinic or hospital-based work. Should we not learn from the example of ... evolve in urban settings and how should it be funded? In my opinion, it is up to the primary care physician to ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2014
... may I direct your call?” “Um, this is Bob Smith and my mom is in room 408, bed 2, and I was wondering how she is ... by two helpful computer-friendly Fraser Health staff in my hospital mailroom the other day. From time to time they ...
Letters / BY: James Quan, MD, March 2014
... teachers I had in medical school, the senior members of my general practice group, and the teachers I had during my psychiatry residency. They all lived the role of ... psychiatry graduates choose to work sessional hours at hospital or government clinics to avoid the expenses of ...
Back Page / BY: Ashnoor Nagji, MD, April 2014
... for malaria, and the clinic and wards create the air of a hospital setting. So much so that a queue forms at 6 a.m., 6 ... day, nonstop, the music plays, perfusing the skies and my soul while serious works gets done. Sometimes the ... sent only C-sections and transfusions to nearby Bundibugyo Hospital (a small improvement over our centre). For all else, ...