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Obituaries / BY: Jane Cowan, PhD, September 2014
... medical history. Dr Cowan joined Dr R.G. Langston in the practice of plastic surgery in 1949 and brought to the ... professionalism that persisted throughout his 39 years in practice. He rapidly won the respect of his colleagues for ... importance of continual learning. During his last year of practice at age 71, he was still enthusiastically discussing ...
Obituaries / BY: Ted Wilford, MD, December 2014
... 1946. They moved to Chilliwack and set up a busy general practice. Dr Wilford maintained his practice until 1987. He continued to do locum work in ...
Letters / BY: James Quan, MD, March 2014
... I had in medical school, the senior members of my general practice group, and the teachers I had during my psychiatry ... with its many competing values, all of which affect the practice of medicine and delivery of health care. For ... wait their turn. Some recent graduates have an approach to practice that emphasizes a life-work balance and they strive ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD June 2014
... experience of the collaborative committees—the General Practice Services Committee, Specialist Services Committee, ... that the renaissance that has affected community family practice spreads across the profession. This step will see ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... prescribed preventive medications in accordance with best practice guidelines for individual chronic diseases.[ 7,8 ] ... “a need to explore and understand poor prescribing practice in order to know how to improve it and enhance ... meetings organized by the St. Paul’s Hospital Family Practice Residency Program as well as formal UBC Department ...
News April 2014
North Peace Division of Family Practice member Dr Paul Mackey received the College of Family ... family medicine. In addition to running a busy family practice in Fort St. John since 1995, Dr Mackey is a GP ... member and lead of the Cowichan Valley Division of Family Practice, Dr Tom Rimmer was named BC’s Family Physician of ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD September 2014
... and interferes with your ability to undertake your practice or training. It will affect your colleagues, your ability to keep up your usual pace of learning and practice, your life partner's ability to cope with your ... because they so often used the year between residency and practice to get pregnant. It wreaked too much havoc on his ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD December 2014
... abetted by a lack of knowledge of methadone in clinical practice? Is it because addiction doesn’t really fit our ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... and good judgment. The journey toward establishing a practice in this remote area was surprisingly long, ... We then approached the IHA and proposed setting up practice in Tatla Lake at the nursing station.  Working at ... subsequently did well. One of the hardest aspects of rural practice is being prepared for anything. I have about 14 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2014
... examining potential human health impacts is optional in practice.[ 3 ] Even when included, as with the Fraser Surrey ...