Author Archives: iamccfp

e-boundaries are essential!

With over 1200 messages in my personal e-mail Inbox… you can say that we are drowning in data! Many of those e-mails are less than helpful for the cause… with the COVID-19 pandemic, many bureaucratic bodies are sending out daily (sometimes 2 and 3 times a day!) messages. All attempting to inform when in actualContinue reading “e-boundaries are essential!”

Marvelous Mental Health!

As we continue to innovate and improve how we deliver high quality Family Medicine in Nanaimo, I have found the phone counselling visit (13038) to be over the top helpful for patients (and myself)! Many patients who have ongoing Mental Health issues like Anxiety and Depression are challenged with easy access to counselling and relationship-basedContinue reading “Marvelous Mental Health!”

COVID-19 is helping transform Family Medicine

Hello all, Amidst a global pandemic, we continue to help and heal our patients in Nanaimo. We have switched to telephone and/or virtual visits. This can occur 85% of the time with few face to face encounters in office to help protect patients and staff from COVID-19 spread (can you say #PhysicalDistancing?). This innovation aloneContinue reading “COVID-19 is helping transform Family Medicine”

Nanaimo has too many Family Physicians…

… not working in community Family Practice (FP) clinic settings. Since 2009, about half of all of the graduates from the UBC Family Practice Residency program (Nanaimo site) have chosen to remain and live in Nanaimo! It is complicated, but community resource allocation for Primary Care (vs Acute Care) is a major cause of thisContinue reading “Nanaimo has too many Family Physicians…”

Family Doctor = GP who specializes in family

Four Principles of Family Medicine 1. The family physician is a skilled clinician. Family physicians demonstrate competence in the patient-centred clinical method; they integrate a sensitive, skillful, and appropriate search for disease. They demonstrate an understanding of patients’ experience of illness (particularly their ideas, feelings, and expectations) and of the impact of illness on patients’Continue reading “Family Doctor = GP who specializes in family”

The wisdom of André Picard

André Picard is a health reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail, where he has been a staff writer since 1987. I have been reading and following him for a few years now. He has an excellent perspective of the Canadian healthcare system. https://www.andrepicard.com/ https://twitter.com/picardonhealth https://www.conferenceboard.ca/e-library/abstract.aspx?did=5863 Some of his articles are (and some aren’t)Continue reading “The wisdom of André Picard”

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