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Editorials / BY: Bill Cavers, MD June 2000
... a more appropriate theme song for the future of general practice than the off-key chorus of “The Times, They are ... Columbia each year over 300 physicians retire or leave practice per year, yet we graduate only 120. Canada is not ... lack of adequate funding! The important thrust in general practice over the next several years will be twofold. First, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD June 2000
... the actual integration of these tools into the medical practice environment has been less than stellar. More than ... say they believe that the net enhances their own access to practice-related information, only 12% actually refer ...  Telemedicine also has a great potential to impact the practice of medicine using the Internet as a low-cost ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... however, amantadine prophylaxis has become the standard of practice in the control of influenza A outbreaks in BC. The ... and institutional outbreak control—Changing standards of practice ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert T. Morrison, MD, FRCPC July/August 2000
... (WHO) criteria. They sought to determine if in practice this new index may be used to predict which ... using a different health-care system and in a clinical practice setting to see whether the index has a wider ... referred for BMD measurements to determine if in clinical practice this index may be used to predict which individuals ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T.F. Handley, MD June 2000
... In the field of licensure and regulation of medical practice, it is no longer good enough to deal with bad apples ... of the day. Closer monitoring of standards of education, practice performance, and maintenance of competence have ... not prepared to meet some of the challenges of clinical practice, especially in outlying communities. UBC’s program ...
Blog / BY: Mark Seger, MD
... professional life by stepwise scaling back the scope of my practice as my capabilities changed. ALS retired me after ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... argued that women were not strong enough for clinical practice. He suggested that their best opportunity lay in ...
Blog / BY: Tara Lyon
... pain management alternatives, many divisions of family practice around the province have organized pain management ... .  As part of this work, the Nanaimo Division of Family Practice has partnered with the Nanaimo Medical Staff ... Engagement Society, the Shared Care Committee, and the Practice Support Program to host a Chronic Pain Workshop on ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... medical history, biographies, comments about medical practice, and even humor. In contrast to the more pointed ... important repeated messages for care and humanism in the practice of medicine, but also a feel of the writers’ love ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... hot day in Vancouver, yet Peters, in line with his usual practice, had not ingested any fluid, glucose, or salt during ...