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CBC Radio BC’s Early Edition: Incoming and Outgoing Residents

Canada Day or July 1st marks quite a few things: - a celebration of the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1867 - free coffee in Khandahar, Afghanistan for our troops - East Germany started using the...

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High Nursing Workload Correlated with Increased Patient Mortality! Also, RNs...

You know when the nurses say they are overworked and that it is affecting patient care? They are totally right! I think we all knew this, but the health authorities seem to be in denial. Check out this...

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Going to Medical School: An Interview about Careers, Blogging and...

Going to Medical School did an interview with me, covering topics from rural/overseas medicine to social media, and career choices in general to Family Practice as a specialty. It’s a bit of a long...

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Working in Two Worlds

The many faces of stolen Picasso masterpieces Although I’ve spent most of my time as a GP/low-volume ER doc with the occasional MedEvac accompaniment, I also work as a locum hospitalist on Vancouver...

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Tent Call

We saw the pine beetle damage from the sky. Fields of orange, with patches of green. A black bear runs underneath us, not bothered by the loud whir of the Cessna’s engines. Some more fuel and we keep...

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Pourquoi apprendre le français?

Une amie francphone m’a demander: “Pourquoi apprendre le français?” As a kid, a strange green puppet named Dimontou was my first exposure to this foreign language. When I was a teenager, I got to go on...

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Up North, Going South

The Igloo-shaped church near my apartment in Iqaluit. I haven’t written lately. Life has been busy; a move to Vancouver, trying 3 new jobs (hospitalist at 3 of the Vancouver area hospitals), trying...

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Well that was humbling!

a view up from the forrest floor in the Beaver Lodge Lands in Campbell River, BC. Partly as an extension of my work with the Canadian Medical Association’s Healthcare Transformation Working Group, I...

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Health Care Social Media #hcsm presentation

Curious about how to use Social Media in your professional existence as a health care provider? Here is the brief talk I gave to the UBC CPD Practice Survival Skills audience in Vancouver, Jun 13,...

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What do doctors do after residency? Then what?

I haven’t had much time to write. Well, I’ve written a lot, but it’s been research projects, applications for licensure in remote territories, thank you letters, and the like. But not blog entries. I...

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