College Library /
BY: Linda Einblau
December 2003
... Syndromes: Evidence Based Guidelines for Primary Care Practice (Peter Manu. New York: Haworth Medical Press, ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Terence W. Anderson BM, BCh, FRCPC, PhD
May 2003
... for elderly subjects. The result is that the conventional practice of using a fixed SMR above a certain age will almost ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Brian McGowan, MD
October 2003
... practitioners dropping hospital privileges. Burnaby Family Practice brought concerns to the attention of the SFHR Board ... absorption of these programs into the Department of Family Practice, development of a chief hospitalist at each site to ... value of all programs and the foundation of the group practice. While parameters were set, it was clearly ...
Letters /
BY: Peter V. Richards, MB
March 2003
... the matter to the attention of the Section of General Practice. The extremely restrictive rejection of claims ...
Editorials /
BY: P. Terry Phang, MD
July/August 2003
... issue on rectal cancer management, we present new data on practice patterns for management and on pathology reporting ... in 1996 and provide possible strategies for changing practice patterns in order to improve outcomes. Specifically, previous practice patterns brought patients urgently for conventional ...
Editorials /
BY: Michael Goldberger, MD
December 2003
... adage. I wonder if it also applies to our style of medical practice in 21st century Western medicine. An old friend of ... poor substitute. When time was less of a luxury in general practice, I would occasionally entertain medical students at ... who are rapidly losing these essential capabilities. The practice of medicine will always be a combination of art and ...
Letters /
BY: M.M. Moran, MB
May 2003
... really don’t think this entitles her to comment on true practice in the North or in a rural or isolated area. The ...
Letters /
BY: A. Krisman, MD
November 2003
... “refused to undergo labor.” In my later years of practice I was presented with a few such cases. I was able to ...
Editorials /
BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC
July/August 2003
The practice of medicine is changing rapidly—or so it seems to ... time. I am told that no one wants to do traditional family practice, that young and not-so-old doctors prefer locum and ... I am told that one cannot give away an established general practice, let alone sell it. I am told that specialists ...
Letters /
BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD
December 2003
... too few doctors, and an inability to retain in rural practice the majority of doctors. With our isolation from ... of what is needed to sustain reasonable conditions of practice in this province. We retreat again and again. The ... away. Financial incentives to remain in their current practice were never at the top of the agenda. Further, the ...