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Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB July/August 2016
... practice and was an anesthetist at Creston Valley Hospital for 20 years. He was the first life member of the ... all for he had the unique ability to cross generations. As my grandson, Nick, said, “He was one of those epic people ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD October 2016
... someone out of context they can be completely unfamiliar. My first job was in a bustling bedroom community, 15 minutes ... from where we lived. There was not a single stoplight on my brief commute to the hospital—just one grocery store, a Canadian Tire, and a ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB June 2016
I lied. I lied to my wife. It’s out in the open now, so I can talk about it. ... dishonesty, evasion, and misrepresentation. I was hiding my phone so she couldn’t see texts from her friends and ... end. She had end-stage chronic disease. As she lay in her hospital bed, becoming weaker and more drowsy, I started to ...
News / BY: Paul M. Gelpke, MB, FRCPE, FACC, May 2016
Dr Norman H. Gelpke, my brother, was a well-known North Shore orthopaedic surgeon. ... and graduated from the University of London (St Mary’s Hospital Medical School). He was an outstanding gymnast and ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2016
Cock-a-doodle-doo! Sun rays hit the room. Max the cat is in my face whining to be let out. Baby’s foot is in my ear. Hubby is snoring. It’s 5:30 a.m. Good morning! Here ... do obstetrics and I have only associate privileges at the hospital. My dreams of being Superdoc …gone? Back in the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2016
... located at 1665 West Broadway in Vancouver, I will make it my business to connect and consult broadly with specialists ... became the director of laboratories at the Royal Columbian Hospital in January 1958, where he developed a unique health ... Columbia. Dr Coady took a keen interest in professional, hospital, medical, and technical organizations, serving on ...
Letters / BY: Jeff Lynskey, MD, March 2016
I was recently trying to complete my reappointment for Vancouver Coastal Health via a website ... registered with a new ID and password. I tried to complete my reappointment but was asked for my Cactus ID. I tried my ... an ID and password to log in to the computer system at our hospital (PRGH). There is another ID and password to log in ...
Letters / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS December 2016
... department or walk-in initiated by the patient without my knowledge as “unscheduled.” Responding to a patient using the Medeo platform on my iPhone took approximately 2 minutes per instance, ... to conduct this kind of research. The Vernon Jubilee Hospital does not fall into this category. —Hamish Hwang, ...
Obituaries / BY: James M. Tisdale, MD, September 2016
... have been asked by his family to write a few words about my very good friend and colleague. Jim leaves behind his best ... studies in internal medicine at the Montreal General Hospital, and an exchange in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ... medicine at what was then known as the Knox Clinic. My wife, Bitten, and I came to Kelowna 1 year prior to ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2016
While attending the St. Paul’s Hospital CME Conference for Primary Care Physicians in ... 2015, I realized that it had been a long time since my last educational meeting—aside from our monthly ... and I look forward to every clinical pearl that might come my way. Eyes facing forward, sitting at attention, I hang on ...