Search

Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG July/August 2017
... It’s unsettling. This has ramifications for medical practice, of course. In all areas of medicine, we have to be ... came later. In two specific activities in medical practice, skilled communication is essential: first, when ... toward impersonal interactions will slowly infect medical practice as well, leading to our spoken interactions with ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD July/August 2017
... document should be strengthened to a legally enforceable practice standard, similar to the directive recently issued[ ... consultation, which aims to strengthen the collaborative practice approach that is so essential in patient care. ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB July/August 2017
... 2 years led him to the Lower Mainland, where he set up a practice in Port Coquitlam and obtained privileges at Royal ... vast area. Dr Rigby, now with a busy and expanding general practice and much needed surgical experience, soon found ...
Obituaries / BY: N. John Bosomworth, MD, FCFP July/August 2017
... 1968 and moved to Penticton in 1972, where he ran a family practice until his retirement. Fred was not defined by his ...
Obituaries / BY: Jack Burak, MD July/August 2017
... Rod then immigrated to Canada, where he entered clinical practice as a family physician in Red Lake, Ontario. He ... medical students and residents. He taught UBC Family Practice residents at St. Paul’s Hospital for 37 years and was appointed director of the St. Paul’s Family Practice Residency site from 1994 to 2004. He later became ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD July/August 2017
... as a physician, is the speed at which knowledge and practice change. Much of what I learned in medical school is now considered outdated, and clinical practice is continually evolving. As we learn more, keeping ... should be a part of the patient histories I take in my practice—that sharing these experiences is the first step ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD September 2017
... value most in my colleagues is dependability. In today’s practice of medicine we depend on each other to provide the ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD September 2017
... physician whose coverage remains in effect for my past practice, but not for new cases. Can one afford to be a Good ...
Letters / BY: Douglas Bell, MD September 2017
... involved in medical-legal issues arising from their practice, the CMPA compensates, on behalf of its members, ...
Letters September 2017
... are perhaps many such stories. Closing or giving away your practice is such a life-changing decision that it cannot be ... promise, usually in writing, not to open another medical practice in the same city. So they try to keep working ...