Clinical Articles /
BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD,
November 2008
... an attendant responsibility to regularly re-evaluate local practice in light of available outcome data, and to provide ...
President's Comment /
BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB,
January/February 2008
... health promotion and prevention initiatives. Scope of practice has its own section in the report, and specifically ... We know that government is seriously looking into scope of practice regulations and we anticipate changes in the months ...
Obituaries /
BY: Eldon Lee, MD,
July/August 2008
... George. It was here that Peter established his medical practice and Shirley and Peter were to raise their family and ... Time took its toll, health problems restricted his practice, heart problems cost him his cigars, infirmities of ...
News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
October 2008
... portion of the income they earn is spent in running their practice. The BCMA Office Overhead Insurance program has ... without proof of good health. Even if you work in a group practice or a clinic, if you become disabled you may still ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Liza Kallstrom,
April 2008
... visits—underlines the urgency of efforts by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) to support BC’s family physicians. “In modern family practice, the monitoring of chronic ailments is more ... pace with the changing nature of their work, the GPSC’s Practice Support Program has developed a chronic disease ...
News /
BY: Michael Myckatyn, MD,
September 2008
The face of medicine and medical practice has changed dramatically over the last 25 years. ... and family with the complexities of running a medical practice. The bottom line for a number of physicians is that ...
Editorials
November 2008
... death, if only temporarily! Those of us involved in the practice of medicine have an interesting relationship with ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC
January/February 2008
... abnormalities of the long bones. Implications for practice Currently 90% of specimens collected for prenatal ...
Obituaries /
BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH
June 2008
... involved in the project. Mimi had just cut back on her practice of family medicine because of her illness. She was grieving her loss of the practice of medicine and she was struggling with the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Robert W. Armstrong, MD, PhD, FRCPC,
September 2008
... physicians and the support of these physicians in clinical practice, academic pursuits, and leadership will define the ... broad educational reform to meet the realities of medical practice today.[ 1 , 2 ] In a recent study, the Institute of ... supporting professionalism: credentials, standards of practice, collegial relations, continuing professional ...