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Clinical Articles / BY: David Baxter June 2000
... significant opportunities and robust challenges for the practice of medicine. These will, to a large extent, stem ... A simple, dramatic indicator of the achievement of medical practice is the continual increase in the percentage of ... of deaths more than doubled. The achievement of medical practice has meant that death now most often comes with age ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS September 2000
... will also consider other sources of information about the practice known as massage therapy. The MTABC information ... at any specific massage school." Standards of training and practice are established and supervised by the College of ... in Canada, nor in other jurisdictions. The scope of practice of massage therapists in BC is determined by the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Wong, MD June 2000
... the utmost professionalism in all aspects of medical practice, learning, teaching, and contribution to research ... in 1998 there were only 133 BC-trained physicians entering practice in all of Canada.[ 1,2 ] As a result, for years the ... even fill the vacancies left by physicians leaving medical practice, let alone start to address the serious supply ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... systems, within increasingly planned and managed practice settings. They will use sophisticated patient ... of health care, the formalization of multidisciplinary practice settings allowing patients one-stop-shopping for ... professionals, and the availability of sophisticated practice management techniques will work to strengthen the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2000
... post-graduate, or locum exposure to rural medical practice are factors that contribute to a physician choosing to practice in a rural community. Once physicians are recruited ... are commonly cited reasons why physicians leave rural practice.[ 2,4-8 ] Personal background, training, and ...
Editorials / BY: Mike Farnworth, MLA June 2000
... better access to care for patients and a more sustainable practice for professionals. In my short time as health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd June 2000
... things to be, and how I fear they might be. Patterns of practice I predict that we will go through a phase in ... from the patients. Being a physician in this type of practice would be much like working in retail; overhead to a ... now. In this case, the primary care physicians may adopt a practice of “office calls,” delivering health promotion, ...
Editorials / BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN June 2000
... developed to demonstrate registered nurses’ scope of practice in a community-based health centre, is now an ... equity, and quality. While control over their own practice will continue to increase, nurses’ relationships ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC June 2000
... astonishing advances in the scientific basis of medical practice that increased our ability to be of service to our ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... and institutional outbreak control—Changing standards of practice (J/F 2000) 5. Administer influenza antivirals to ...