Mledic'ine is a' faminly industry Page 1 MEDICAL PRACTICE * PRATIQUE MEDICALE
Mledic'ine is a' faminly industry in Magrath, Alta. Lynne Sears Williams W hen Dr. Doogie …

P5 atrick Sullivan's report (Can Med Assoc J 1990; 143: 949-950) on the pre-sentation by Dr.
William Mac-Donald, Saskatchewan's deputy minister of health, at the CMA-sponsored …

A lthough it pained him not at all to keep his patients waiting, my mentor Riley expected, if
only as a professional courtesy, to be seen on time himself. The head of undergraduate …

Y ou've probably noticed that you'll find as many variations in the ways physicians live as
you will in any other segment ofsociety. Some are drawn to specialty practice in the big city …

I suggest that there are two major omissions from the CMA's Code of Ethics."'Comfort
always." As a med-ical student I remember that phrase being taught to me during our clinical …

" Daddy, is it fun being a doctor?" He thought for a moment. What is it like?" Is it hard?" No, it
isn't hard. It's something else...." Can any-body be a doctor", he persisted. Just then the …

Douglas Waugh, MD while agoa friend A who had come to Canada as a 20-yearmother old,
and whose mother tongue was neither French nor English, was telling me about some of his …

However, when I asked him how things were this year, I received a litany of complaints. He
recounted how his HMO had been cannibalized by a series of larger and larger HMOs; with …

Everything in America takes place on a larger scale, and this includes the workings of the
democratic process, so that the presidential electoral campaign is drawn out to a 12-months …

ALTHOUGH the recent attack on private practice was, in many ways, an irrelevant diversion
from the real problems of the National Health Service (NHS), it raised a number of vitally …