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Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, September 2007
... CME credits” ( BCMJ  2007;49[3]:109-110 ), which cites my conference lectures on homeopathy as inappropriate CME ... in which homeopathy was used in an NHS Teaching Trust hospital.[ 6 ] All of these patients had been referred by their general practitioners or hospital consultants. Positive health changes were reported ...
Obituaries May 2007
Hugh Miller, my long-time friend and associate, was a very special man. ... FRCSC in 1958. In the days when the Vancouver General Hospital Emergency Department was mostly run by house staff, ...
Premise / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2006
... I can’t help but apply some of the basics of my branch of medicine to the task tonight. One of those ... But I know from personal introspection, my colleagueship with physicians, and my clinical practice of ... He became the pathologist for Montreal General Hospital, if not the city of Montreal. Students found his ...
Premise / BY: Carol Pfefferkorn, MD, April 2006
... numbers of family physicians giving up their hospital privileges, the large number of “orphaned” hospital patients has become a significant concern. Should ... enables the family physician to anticipate obstacles that my affect the patient’s recovery and prevent successful ...
Back Page / BY: E.F. Vreede, MD, October 2006
... Granger Avery and I had done rounds in the little 10-bed hospital that also functioned as my place to sleep for 6 weeks, and I was getting my stuff together for our trip by floatplane to an outlying ...
Premise / BY: Michael K. McIsaac, BA, May 2006
... describe what mental health isn’t. I would not want my personal wellness to be stated in terms of “not ... or grounded. Should an MRI or CT scan reveal that my neuroanatomy is abnormal or that there are holes in my ... Psychiatry, at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal to submit a report on mental health ...
Editorials / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD March 2006
... his or her daily routine. For example, the pharmacy at the hospital where I work sent around a newsletter with two very ... simpler, and very much safer—and no one needs to read my writing. The situation on busy hospital wards, of course, is more serious and complicated. ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... from your resume, like you’ve moved quite a lot. Yes. My dad was a small-town GP in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. We ... Salt Lake, and when I was 12 we moved to Winnipeg, where my Dad took an academic position. Then when I was 18 we moved ... in Toronto for a couple of years before we moved, so I had hospital privileges, which are like courtesy privileges. I ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jill Franklin, BA, December 2006
... with a known or suspected brain injury, should be given a hospital “head sheet” [6-8]  before discharge that ... for people with mTBI. When an mTBI diagnosis is made in hospital, ERBIS should be informed and the patient contacted. ... San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books; 2000. Osborne CL. Over My Head: A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury. Kansas City, ...
Letters / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd July/August 2006
... means of transportation to the local emergency department. My colleagues and I frequently receive notice from family ... early therapy. Importantly, they can also bypass a local hospital in favor of a cardiac centre with a cath lab if need ...