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Letters / BY: Tahmeena Ali, MD, CCFP, FCFP December 2025
... over 2 decades of longitudinal family practice, including hospital care, maternity care, and rural experience, is meaningless to many of my patients because I’m not a “specialist” is eroding my love of family medicine. I imagine many general ...
MDs To Be / BY: Taewoong Chae, MD September 2025
... for assessing patient satisfaction, such as the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and ... this quality improvement project at the BC Children’s Hospital Spinal Cord Clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic that ... subject of each statement was changed from “I” to “my child,” because parents typically completed the survey. ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC March 2025
... library. In response, I wrote an editorial expressing my disappointment.[ 1 ] As you may recall, this closure was ... the closure of the Library has significantly impacted my research mentorship for medical students and residents. I ... we may still have access to resources through hospital librarians or UBC. But many of us relied entirely on ...
Premise / BY: Robin Routledge, MD, FRCPC November 2025
... simplified examples from Western Canadian history, and my personal experience as the grandson of British immigrants ... mainly on the care of individuals. In this article, I use my specialty of psychiatry as an example of medical ... experience in Saint-Alban’s community psychiatric hospital. But he also wrote influential anticolonialist books ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2025
... from various infectious diseases guidelines, surely my answer should be based on credible scientific evidence, ... in young women. Is it a serious problem that occurs in the hospital or could end up leading to hospitalization? With the ... in chunks of time based on arbitrary human constructs. In my experience, a particularly potent number is 6 weeks, as ...
Letters / BY: Dean Giustini, MLS, MEd October 2025
... their medical knowledge and practice standards. My mentor, former CPSBC Library director Bill Fraser,[ 1 ] ... At UBC’s Biomedical Branch Library at Vancouver General Hospital, I’ve seen increased demand from CPSBC ...
Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2025
... and hopefully help in any way I can. I’m married—my husband is a family doctor in longitudinal care—and I ... background that community connections, either with the hospital or the various ways you connect with the community, ... work or quality improvement work? Since the beginning of my career in medicine, I’ve wanted to get involved. I ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Natasha Benson, MD, FRCPC September 2024
... infectious diseases specialists at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre cared for women with possible ... during pregnancy. I had not heard of the virus until my son’s sudden hearing loss at 3 months old.” ... found it difficult to navigate the various supports in my community.” “I only wish my nurse in the NICU wasn’t ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB October 2024
Our hospital’s physician wellness committee is constantly ... 37 years; I’ve been there for 31). Many years ago, our hospital used to honor hospital staff (including nurses and ... available. All the reminiscing got me thinking back to my medical school days when we used equipment that is now ...
Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... having worked for 15 years in BC. As a colorectal surgeon, my practice is predominantly at St. Paul’s Hospital, where I’ve looked after a population of patients sent to me by colleagues around the province. My other big role is in medical education. I’ve been ...