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Letters / BY: J.L. Cochlin, MD June 2001
... to inquire as to whether I had yet found a replacement for my recently departed associate. I advised the patient that I ... no requirement to provide after-hours coverage or ongoing hospital care for patients. I then pointed out that I had ... Abbotsford area, we have over the past few years, lost, in my estimation, nine family practitioner equivalents with no ...
Letters / BY: Jeff Purkis, MD March 2001
... to this letter:  1 ,  2 ,  3 I just returned home from my 4-hour shift in our walk-in clinic. As in many communities, our hospital-based GPs opened a walk-in several years ago to ... baby-boomers. The problem is really quite straightforward. My day starts at 7:30 a.m. and usually ends at 7 p.m. I see a ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2001
... colleagues for years that their work is not appreciated by hospital administrators, bureaucrats, and legislators. A ... in favor of returning to those awful, nerdy hats, but in my hospital there has been a British-trained nurse who has ... staff. I’m sure I will get a boatload of nasty mail from my nurse friends once this is published, but for a group that ...
Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD July / August 2001
... can remember, it was understood that surgeons worked at a hospital and provided coverage of the emergency department 24 ... a year. In return for this they were able to work at the hospital and were able to have elective OR time and access to ... ill patients of British Columbia. There is no question in my mind that the surgeons of British Columbia have kept their ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP March 2001
... readers of the  BC Medical Journal  have brought to my attention an anonymous letter printed in the  BC Medical ... because of an equity issue is advised to contact my office immediately and we arrange an alternate interview. ... learn clinical skills and decision making in the teaching hospital, move to experience rural practice between second ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Bernat, MD July / August 2001
... and walk-in clinics are a response to this change. It is my opinion that they are neither good nor bad and they must ... no one trying to develop a new vision or paradigm. I see my colleagues working very hard trying to improve our present ... the following: “...unless there is a policy at the local hospital which keeps out family doctors, e.g., VGH.” I ...
Letters / BY: Michael Alms, MB September 2001
With reference to my letter published in your March issue [ BCMJ 2001;43(2): 68 ... countries.) On being admitted to a National Health Service hospital in Great Britain, the patient enters a contract with ... but in the case of an attending physician in a Canadian hospital is also a breach of a legal contract. —Michael ...
Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD December 2001
... were delays, as there always are. The OR in the small hospital was slow and they were late getting clearance to ... to put yourself in their shoes (or in the case of many of my patients, shoe). I think a lot of us are thinking that way ...
Letters / BY: Michael Alms, MB March 2001
... and uncaring sausage machine. I regret to say that in its hospital services that may sometimes be true. It was with ... wait that long nor were they treated so inconsiderately. My wife was recently admitted to a Vancouver teaching ... ago the doctor would have had nothing effective to offer my wife. He could have done little more than sit by her bed, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister Browne, PhD July / August 2001
... what is right and wrong. Both reactions are mistaken. My aim here is to explain why they are mistaken by describing ... significant deficits is born; a stranger is brought to hospital with a severe stroke; an elderly person becomes ... the way money is spent and risks accepted elsewhere in any hospital? Can physicians insist on their judgment of what is ...