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Obituaries / BY: Michael Moscovich, MD April 2018
... in the Division of Cardiology at Vancouver General Hospital, but he also worked at Shaughnessy Hospital and taught medical students at UBC. Other work ... and traveler. He loved tennis and routinely dismissed my efforts. Monday nights were reserved for a bridge group ...
News / BY: Sam Bugis, MD April 2018
... Engagement Initiative continues to gain momentum with 69 hospital-based physician groups now organized and leading ... is energizing this activity? Mainly, it’s relationships. My father, who was an obstetrician, worked at the tertiary ... doing more of that, and I hear they are enjoying it. In my previous role as head of surgery, my colleagues and I ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
Dr Eric Cadesky Sitting at my grandfather’s typewriter years ago, I heard the click of my fingers on the faded black keys and the clack of letters ... electronic medical record, but it doesn’t connect to the hospital or other clinics—even if they use the same ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD October 2018
... Rae In the 30-plus years that I spent at St. Paul’s Hospital I must have gone to more than a thousand medical ... grand rounds; fewer than a handful of them stand out in my memory. One that does was given by the remarkable man who ... trigger his interest in kidneys. Dr Rae entered the London Hospital Medical School (now the Royal) in 1947 at age 18. Of ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2018
... face. Her smile widens even more when she sees that I have my 3-year-old daughter in tow. She opens her arms for a hug ... enter the family room, where we see Mr S. He is lying on a hospital bed tucked in with lots of blankets and facing an ... that way throughout the visit. Mrs and Mr S. are both my patients. His health declined rapidly over the past few ...
Back Page / BY: Paul Mitenko, MD November 2018
... with a difficult bureaucracy about a poorly designed hospital computer system. Our persistent and perceptive ... the media made opening day a trial, even to the clerk in my office (my wife, Donna) asking a bright young TV reporter, “Will ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd December 2018
... that confidently says, “I did it!” BC Children’s Hospital emergency physician Dr David A. Haughton took the ... in combination with acrylics the way he does. “It’s my own and it’s new. Nobody else has done it,” he says. ... Haughton, “What I’m most proud of is that I did it my way. I feel enormously happy and content that I had the ...
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