Practice Tips

Nanaimo, B.C. general internist Dr. Hector Baillie suggests holding CME events for other family physicians and other specialists, such as at a local restaurant.

Demands on doctors are constant. Learn to say it and mean it and forget about it.

Before 2008 I was, as a ‘well-educated pharmacist’, telling my patients, “When you take antibiotics, why don't you take some yogurt!” What did I know? We never got any training on probiotics.

The government is also still asking for more control over nurses' scheduling, which currently allows for nurses' flexible and predictable schedules

We looked for doctors’ most common ‘how to’ questions and asked colleagues and advisers to help answer them.

We looked for doctors’ most common ‘how to’ questions and asked colleagues and advisers to help answer them.

We looked for doctors’ most common ‘how to’ questions and asked colleagues and advisers to help answer them.

We looked for doctors’ most common ‘how to’ questions and asked colleagues and advisers to help answer them.