Efforts to support these practitioners are whimsical when our entire medical system,
politically, administratively, legally and intellectually has accepted and encourages, as do all …

There are 2 clear possibilities: either you have the stuff or you don't. The first lesson I learned
was that drilling a hole in the cranium is usually a 2-stage procedure. You use a sharp …

By all means, if possible, let [the young physician] be a pluralist, and--as he values his
future life--let him not get early entangled in the meshes of specialism.(1) We salute those …

This F/P/T annual meeting has spawned several joint federal and provincial committees to
advise the ministers. One is called ACHER-Advisory Committee on Health Human Resources-…

The opportunity for women to have their babies in their own rural communities could be
sustained if the joint position papers on Training for Rural Family Practitioners in Advanced …

Rural health care is sustained by broadly—skilled general practitioners, many with advanced
skills. Yet our medical system is designed for either specialists or generalist physicians …

Like the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC), the CFPC had its ori-gins in rural
Canada and was founded to enhance the roles, reputation and well-being of the generalist. …

He makes it clear that he won't submit to electrical cardioversion because he" had that done
once before by some quack and had a headache for a week." He has a cardiologist whom …

Telemedicine can be a marvellous bridge between rural hospitals and tertiary centres, but
the spectacular case recounted by Bruce Campana and colleagues1 may not illustrate this …

… Keith MacLellan, MD, CM President, Society of Rural Physicians of Canada …