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Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... attend mental health and addiction counseling. The General Practice Services Committee’s Practice Support Program and website have also improved ... workshops, and telephone coaching. The Divisions of Family Practice website includes a number of resources and ...
Back Page / BY: Jim Petzold, MD September 2019
... the past 40 years mostly in full-service rural family practice in a small coastal community of British Columbia. ...
Letters / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2019
... Letters Reducing disability paperwork and family practice visits ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2019
... met my wife here, twice.* I managed to build a busy family practice while working at Langley Hospital, where I have ... physicians whom I am proud to call my friends. Joining a practice is like a marriage in many ways, so to those physicians considering joining a practice, I encourage you to choose wisely. I know I did. ...
News January/February 2019
... Medical Advice Relay Fee G14029 GP Allied Care Provider Practice Code To avoid billing refusal, GPs will need to bill ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2019
... use in managing chronic noncancer pain, WorkSafeBC issued practice directive #C10-1, “Claims with opioids, ... drugs,” which is available on www.worksafebc.com . The practice directive provides prescription timelines, ... with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s practice standards for the safe prescribing of opioids. The ...
News September 2019
... the GPSC and SGP are expanding their series from new-to-practice to all family doctors and their MOAs. The webinars were first presented to new-to-practice GPs in winter 2018 and spring 2019. Led by physician ... about each webinar: Introduction to MSP Billing for Family Practice: 17 September at 6 p.m.  Basic visit (00100 series) ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi March 2019
... They enable doctors to rely on each other for practice coverage, and to support each other with clinical ... end-of-life care. In many communities, divisions of family practice are actively involved in (or planning for) the ... these diverse communities, the Richmond Division of Family Practice created Neighbourhood Networks[ 2 ]—geographically ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2019
... Yesterday was a typical office day in my community family practice. Periodic health/preventive exams, and geriatric and ... night with the solution. Sir William Osler said, “The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it—to ...
Obituaries / BY: Wayne Niou, MD November 2019
... of Calgary in 2014. She practised full-service family practice in Burnaby’s Crystal Mall starting in July 2015. ... when many doctors avoided taking on the burden of a family practice, Dr Chan embraced the challenge and took pleasure in ...