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Physician Spotlight / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2014
... with clinical sciences through the vision of a university hospital. This became a reality when another renowned UBC ... almost single-handedly helped to establish the UBC Hospital adjacent to the existing basic science buildings. It ... several papers with Dr Friedman, and he supervised my thesis. Dr Friedman was also educated as an artist. His ...
MDs To Be / BY: Joanne Bleackley, BSc, October 2013
... the history, lab values, orders, and surgery notes, my stomach gives a loud growl. Great. An-other emergency note ... Here, in the security-guarded basement of a pediatric hospital, I am spending a beautiful spring in Vancouver.  ... chart reviews over the course of 2 years, and many of my friends have spent their summers conducting the long and ...
Letters / BY: Peter Blair, MD, April 2013
... remuneration is out of touch with the realities of modern hospital-based practice. There is wide­spread frustration ... changing pattern of investment will particularly affect my surgical and anesthesia colleagues. Furthermore, ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD March 2013
... most waking hours of the day. I know that physicians of my generation aren’t as adept at balancing the work-life ratio as our younger colleagues. In my day, we did the early rounds in hospital, worked in the office later than we would have ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Vera Frinton, MD October 2013
... and then as a unit. It was a great privilege to interview my dear friends, and I thank them for their honesty and ... Cam Coady Award in 2009. Shelly relocated to St. Paul’s Hospital in 1996 to work more closely with Linda and ... on staff at VGH for 3 years before moving to St. Paul’s Hospital in 1987 to fill a vacancy left by the departure of ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG May 2013
I learned to be a doctor in hospitals. For my generation, there was none of today’s going out into the ... us what to do. So when I became a doctor, like many of my colleagues I stayed in the hospital. And stayed.  That was it until the end of last ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... in the emergency department of the Cowichan District Hospital.   Dr William Cunningham is the first emergency ... physician attaché. Can you tell us a bit about him? My dad was one of those doctors whose story makes you say, ... and varied career.” An MD ticket can be exactly that. My dad was born and grew up in Portrush, Northern Ireland, ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD April 2013
One of my very good friends, who is brilliant, committed, and ... the honor several years ago of being made head of his hospital clinical group. It appears likely that when he ... mandated structure of reporting and decision making.  In my opinion, the modern anatomy of our hos­pital ...
Letters / BY: Robert G. Holmes, MD April 2013
... are not taught at medical school, and I could be at the hospital or my office in less than five minutes. A doctor behind a ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD December 2013
A friend of mine spent some time at our hospital with his child who required medical and surgical ... was eventually discharged after successful treatment, but my nonmedical friend hinted to me that there was some ... know well the aphorism involving a cat and its skin, but my friend’s concern was in the delivery and communication ...