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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2015
“How’s my favorite patient doing today?” “Oh, I’m fine, ... was just wondering if you’d seen her.” I love to tease my patients in this fashion, likely due to being dropped on my head as an infant. I do the same thing at the hospital, where I greet staff by asking how my favorite ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD September 2015
... with some serious health issues that forced me to leave my practice for about 9 months. I have just returned and all ... supports, family, and friends when the need arises. My office partners, busy and already overworked, never showed ... them just to make sure I was okay. My department head and hospital administrators were willing to help with some ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
... of growing up there?   In terms of personal time with my family, it’s the memories of time spent working with my grandfather making electronic devices. I built a 1-amp ... ever since. We had a psychologist upstairs, we had the hospital, we ran emerg. I did some deliveries and we ...
Obituaries / BY: Doug Blackman, MD, September 2015
... After completing an internship at the Royal Columbian Hospital he ran a full-spectrum family medicine practice in ... others. Early in his career Dr VanAndel became involved in hospital medical staff affairs at Royal Columbian, where his ... and his or her legal counsel, he would say, “Let me take my registrar’s hat off for a moment,” and then ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Lind Grant-Oyeye, MD, September 2015
...   To wake up someday and realize I have not lived life to my full potential. What characteristic do your favorite ... fiction. Where would you most like to practise?   I enjoy my current practice but would also love to spend a month as ... in the pediatric surgery department of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England. They carry out cool, ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2015
... by interfering in the provinces’ domain. It is not, in my view, a coincidence that the Canada Health Act heralded ... homes, and long-term care. They sometimes occupy acute hospital beds and limit access for those needing such care. ... wait a medically inappropriate amount of time to access hospital care. All five priority areas targeted in the 2004 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Cynthia Kong, December 2015
... to access the resources they needed. I had just finished my rural family medicine rotation and, riding on the ... as a city girl, so rural medicine was the last thing on my radar when I started medical school. But now I think there ... of a medical emergency are finding support to arrange a hospital transfer and making the transportation happen. As I ...
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