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Obituaries / BY: Irwin Stewart, MD, October 2014
Dr Guy Barnes was one of my interviewers when I applied for a position on the intern staff at Royal Columbian Hospital in 1956. Several of us UBC graduates were accepted ... and they continued to practise for many years.  During my internship, Dr Barnes and colleagues assumed that at least ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2014
... may I direct your call?” “Um, this is Bob Smith and my mom is in room 408, bed 2, and I was wondering how she is ... by two helpful computer-friendly Fraser Health staff in my hospital mailroom the other day. From time to time they ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG January/February 2014
My first serious surgical experience was on my second day as an intern (or “junior resident,” as we ... I was on call for the surgical unit in a regional referral hospital, and my surgical consultant had just returned from a ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2014
... is thank goodness for helmets, as mine definitely saved my already underfunctioning brain—judging by the alteration in its former contour. My bike fared about the same, as, apparently, with enough ... I came out much better. I was able to walk out of the hospital on my own steam, adorned by my new hard collar. I ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2014
... retired doc. It can be due to motor failure and brakes, as my humor and satire loses horsepower and grinds to a halt. Is my clutch slipping? The power is gone and patches of oil ... in. I could smell the epoxy cement in the Kelowna General Hospital surgery recovery room. They said they used a full ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... of your career? While I was in medical school all of my friends went traveling and came back with slideshows of ... that New Zealand and BC cross-accredited, that part of my travel expenses to get down there would be subsidized ... down under? I was able to do a lot of medical work in the hospital--things I would not be allowed to do here--I was ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Shelley Ross, MD October 2014
... running to her office to accompany the boy to the hospital. Not one to let technology evade her, in 2008 she ... on supporting family physicians to stay involved with in-hospital work. Learning of other divisions getting together ... continuing professional development program, This Changed My Practice, and she continues to engage with UBC CPD on ...
Letters / BY: James Quan, MD, March 2014
... teachers I had in medical school, the senior members of my general practice group, and the teachers I had during my psychiatry residency. They all lived the role of ... psychiatry graduates choose to work sessional hours at hospital or government clinics to avoid the expenses of ...
Obituaries / BY: Gerard Ponsford, MBBS, September 2014
... the past 43 years. I first met John in the summer of 1978. My wife, Mary, was invited to a ladies’ lunch put on to ... years. John was also a missionary, once removed, in Surrey Hospital when he became the second internist on staff, ... skied, shared Christmases, and even sailed together. My children came to regard John as an uncle. It was a very ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
... in Williams Lake, British Columbia, I found some of my patients were using Hoffman’s drops, consisting of one ... in Winnipeg. As a GP/anesthetist in the Cariboo Memorial Hospital, I used open drop diethyl ether to put people to ... the triumphal march into nothingness reverberated through my brain, and filled me with a sense of infinite ...