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Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD November 2003
... terms?” ( BCMJ 2003; 45[7]:304 ) (It seems that I have my own private devil’s advocate. Perhaps I should feel ... I ran a clinical teaching program at the old Grace Hospital for over 15 years. Of course we were proud of our ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD September 2003
... the transfer of medical and nursing education from the hospital bedside to the university and college classroom ( ... striding swiftly down the polished linoleum of Shaughnessy Hospital followed by his gaggle of white-jacketed students. ... [The thread upon his overcoat was bare]. It has been my experience that the finest teachers have been consistently ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Goldberger, MD December 2003
... When he returned from abroad he decided to re-enter hospital medicine and enrolled in a residency program. I ... ophthalmic surgery present to the office clutching a hospital preadmission form. Clearly a very basic physical ... performing a very clumsy physical examination on one of my patients and being totally incapable of eliciting any of ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB November 2003
... Two recent personal encounters have reinforced my belief that the introduction of competition is the key to ... the patient. A dramatic change in attitudes would result. Hospital patients would find themselves moved to the top of ... an incentive to attract better doctors, nurses, and other hospital employees to work in their facility. In Britain, ...
Letters / BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD December 2003
... The tone of the  Negotiator  does nothing to allay my fears that we are poised for yet another retreat with, as ... to make his point, he actually misquotes me. I stated in my interview with the managing editor of the BCMJ that ... period. I am well aware of resource shortages, hospital issues, and health authority interference in all ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD October 2003
... there is another assumption, and this is where I had my most recent sudden realization. I have assumed in the past ... care for a family member and was informed that my assumption was wrong. At that point I had a EUREKA! ... of the elderly individuals she was ushering out of the hospital virtually every day and who had no or extremely ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD June 2003
... nursing education deteriorated when it was moved from the hospital ward to the university classroom. In my later years of practice it seemed that many new nurses ...
Letters / BY: Michael Priest, MD April 2003
... might well be your response! However, the delay between my contact with the general surgeon and operation was less ... aware that I was a retired doctor and the staff of the hospital, Powell River General Hospital, were competent and friendly. The hospital’s phone ...
Letters / BY: Philip M. Alderman, MD March 2002
... are never mentioned in the medical literature. Not so. My 1988 JAMA paper describes a total group of 8879 ... and rates. [1]   But this is largely a non-issue as, in my experience, truants whose vasectomies fail will ... standard technique, including two requiring admission to hospital for surgical drainage of large hematomas. This ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Goldberger, MD April 2002
... without compassion. “It was as if he was talking about my car” said the doctor’s patient. Some years ago, I ... treatment and whether this would influence mortality. To my total astonishment and dismay, the oncologist entered the ... Last year one of my elderly patients was admitted to hospital subsequent to suffering an acute hemiplegia. ...