EDITORIAL: Do you have the right to opt out of e-data sharing?
Colin Leslie | June 16, 2009 We are a woeful, laggard nation when it comes to the use of e-health records. There are 67,000 licensed doctors in Canada; approximately 45,000 have clinics outside of acute-care settings—that’s 30,000 GPs and 15,000 specialists, a huge group who could benefit from office-based electronic medical records.
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Monday, June 15. We call it MD Pension Action Day
Colin Leslie | June 16, 2009 It's our challenge to you. Would your life be better with a formal pension, like most of your European colleagues enjoy?
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EDITORIAL: Should provincial colleges yield to national licensure standards?
Colin Leslie | June 01, 2009 The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia was founded in 1886. That was also the year, interestingly enough, that Canada’s new transcontinental railway first started carrying passengers. The first trip—Montreal to Vancouver—took six days.
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EDITORIAL: Is there a more scientific way to look at fee relativity?
Colin Leslie | May 19, 2009 Politically, it’s become virtually impossible to cut fees.
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EDITORIAL: Are we treating international medical graduates fairly?
Colin Leslie | May 05, 2009 Our nation offers a rather patchwork welcome mat to doctors trained overseas.
Rules and programs for international medical graduates (IMGs) vary widely from
province to province, so for simplicity today we’ll just look at Ontario.
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