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Letters / BY: Ron De Marchi, MD May 2002
... it was our new graduates who were choosing the WIC-type practice, but now we are seeing our previously established ... traditionalists jump ship toward the WIC method of practice as they slowly desert many of the roles of the ... increased by 11.5%, others will move toward the WIC type practice, as a comfortable living can be made on that billing ...
Editorials / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC October 2002
... to ranting on occasion, but something has happened to the practice of medicine that makes me reluctant to admit that I ... those who do not already know. I have been out of clinical practice for a few years and so I have been insulated from ... of the offending part. It seems that the style of practice now is ...
Letters / BY: D.H. Blackman, MD March 2002
... & Surgeons developed the Committee on Office Medical Practice Assessment under its mandate to “establish, monitor, and enforce standards of practice to enhance the quality of practice…amongst members.” This program was developed ...
Letters / BY: Jim Henderson September 2002
... on the accessibility of research in support of clinical practice. My column analyzed, hopefully dispassionately, the ...
Letters May 2002
... thousands, discussing the state of health care and medical practice in the province. Character #1: “Doctors are ... in the world to live, and I have a good income from my practice. I have no complaints.” Character #15: “I ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2002
... contentious relationship between CAM and conventional practice. Phraseology in the brochure like “may not be ... minerals, herbs, and other therapies. • Evidence-based practice is central to good modern medicine. Since evidence ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andrew R. Woolfenden, MD, FRCPC April 2002
... of anticoagulation has been demonstrated in clinical practice. [ 36,37]  Anticoagulation clinics improve INR ... Table 3 . Underutilization of anticoagulation in clinical practice  Despite the results of many randomized trials that ... remains a significant underuse of warfarin in clinical practice. In one American hospital-based study, 56% of AF ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Theresa Isomura, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... caring for the mental health needs of patients in their practice. Studies show that the prevalence of patients seen ... HSO (Health Service Organization, a rostered primary care practice) Program, which was initiated in 1994 and funded by ... and we adopted this tenet for our project. Two family practice clinics participated: a clinic in Coquitlam with ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard Toews, MD May 2002
...  [ BCMJ 2001;43(2):71 ]) about the demise of general practice in White Rock are not exaggerated. Our communities ... are witnessing a similar exit of family physicians from practice with no one to replace them. Those of us brave or ... as specialists. We will attract more doctors to family practice if they know that this is not a dead end. How many ...
Clinical Articles / BY: A.J. Macgregor, MD November 2002
Family practice is in disarray. A service that until recently was ... care system now suffers daily losses from full-service practice to episodic walk-in clinics and an increasingly wide ... employment. Medical students now consider family practice much less attractive, and graduating FP residents ...