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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 ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS June 2006
... This did not trouble him, or indeed anyone else in the hospital, because he was far and away the best and most ... series of them as he was wont to crash them. On entering a hospital ward, a comet’s tail (myself included) struggling ... Good morning!” to all present. He was immortalized in my memory by the late actor James Robertson Justice in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2006
... want to be the president?’ A few years after I opened my first practice (in Trail) I realized I was letting my patients down with alarming frequency. I sat with them in my office, their homes, or at the hospital, explaining why I couldn’t get them what they ...
Letters / BY: Garry R. Jenkins, MD, May 2006
... for seeing the elderly and the very young, obstetrics, hospital and nursing home visits, and minor surgical ... their practices to become hospitalists in Lions Gate Hospital for a salary of $175000 for a 48-week work year. ... earns (I don’t know the figures for this). Judging from my family practice, a bonus of about $50000 per year would be ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2006
... a few expressions of concern. I remain very respectful of my fellow candidates, who put in many years of service to the ... to the poor. User fees and co-payments for physician and hospital services exist in all parts of our system, including ...
Obituaries / BY: Kenneth Berry, MD, June 2006
... a senior internship in internal medicine at Shaughnessy Hospital, a new staff member arrived on our service. I ... long before I was treated to his stern questioning of my motives for ordering a skull X-ray on one of his patients ... later, during the same rotation and once I had absorbed my lessons and softened my opinion of him, David told me that ...
Obituaries / BY: W.H. Barclay, MD September 2006
... of Manitoba in 1942 and interned at Vancouver General Hospital, then practised in Vancouver until 1969. Kay was ... and in fact delivered me 60 years ago. She became my inspiration to enter into a career in medicine. In 1969, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2006
... standing at the doctors’ entrance when I arrived at the hospital this morning. “Pardon?” was all I could stammer ... asked me to give you this refund.” I was still shaking my head with disbelief when I arrived on the medical ward. I couldn’t find my patient, Mr Smith, in his room so I asked the nurse where ...