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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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC June 2000
... I first entered the wards of a London teaching hospital. There I began listening and talking to patients, ... of everyone around. We were the patients’ advocates. My mentors were great clinicians, many attracting patients ... the United Kingdom was just being ushered in as I entered my pre-clinical years. It is extraordinary now to remember ...
Editorials / BY: Ralph Klein, MLA, Premier of Alberta June 2000
... to participate in the journal’s special centenary issue. My congratulations to members of the British Columbia Medical ... service to the people of your province. In BC, in my home province of Alberta, and across Canada, physicians ... and more health services delivered outside the traditional hospital setting. We might even see the concept of what a ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
I turned on my computer this morning and clicked on the Google webpage to ... Paul Broca, the celebrated neuroanatomist of the 1850s. To my irritation the Google logo was a cartoonish puzzle that I ... medical training took place in Oxford and at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He knew Sir William Osler. He was a Rhodes Scholar. ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... later. All of this happened well before I was born, but my then 20-year-old father served as a sublieutenant of horse ... on immediately. The next stop was the casualty clearing hospital—usually close to a railway facility. Ambulance ... births. These trains carried the injured to a base hospital from which hospital ships moved them to England, ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
When I was a teenager an elderly uncle filled my ear with examples of how easy my life was compared to his. He recalled walking to school in ... fashionable absence of family physicians from the hospital. In the 1950s and 60s when I was in general practice ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... They have suffered the worst of social isolation. My heart was with them and their families. So on this Mother’s Day, Sunday 9 May, I will remember my mom, who died in 1992, but I will also raise my glass in ... who spent 4 years in Berlin as a resident at a German hospital, then became famous for pioneering orthopaedic ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
During my first few months of general practice in North Vancouver in ... be done for her. The senior physician put his hand on my shoulder and said, “your visits will help her, use your bedside manner.”  During that time hospital stays were long and general practitioners and ...