October

When I started in practice in Victoria many years ago, each day I made a point of visiting those patients in hospital on whom I had operated, until they were discharged. After some years I made an arrangement with three other gynecologists by which one of the four of us would cover the practices of the other three each weekend. The one on call would then visit the hospital patients of all four of us each day. Although there was usually little to do during these visits, I believe the patients appreciated them and knowing they had not been forgotten or abandoned.

A score of BCMA directors and several staff formed the BC delegation to the Canadian Medical Association annual meeting, held in Yellowknife over 4 days in August.

Much anticipated by family doctors across British Co­lumbia, the Child and Youth Mental Health (CYMH) module from the Practice Support Program (PSP) begins a full rollout in October 2012.

"I’m like a horse that smells the barn,” was the response I got to the quizzical stare I directed at my new running partner. He had just done a reasonable Usain Bolt impression after struggling for most of our lunch-time run. 

I met my mentor over 20 years ago while doing a locum for one of his partners. He caught me heading out the door in my running shoes one lunchtime and signed me up for the next day. Little did I know that this would be the start of a long and beautiful relationship where generally we would run together at lunch at least once a week. 

A few months ago, we watched the incredible feats of athletes who, through intense training and hard work, made it to the Olym­pics and brought home gold. They couldn’t have accomplished so much without the support of their teams and particularly their coaches.

Physicians work as hard as Olym­pic athletes, and while we might not aspire to a podium, we take pride in our best clinical abilities. Our judges are our patients and colleagues, and with their occasional feedback, we con­tentedly trudge on.

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