When it comes to team-based care and Family Medicine, Social Workers sometimes make the biggest difference for a patient to go from surviving to thriving! As said, we our honoured and privileged as a Family Doctor to work and collaborate with the many other amazing allied health team members like MOA’s, RN’s, LPN’s and NP’sContinue reading “Social Workers Rock!”
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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”
Blue Sky Family Medicine 