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Your Turn: A 10-point Marshall plan to right the doctor shortage
More than four million Canadians do not have a family doctor. Currently, Canada produces 2,300 new doctors a year but we need about 3,200 a year. How can we find 900 more doctors annually? Canada has failed to use the services of the thousands of international medical graduates (IMGs) in Canada who are unable to practise because they can’t get
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Last Laugh: Arrested Developments
Dr. Noorali Bharwani comes to the awkward conclusion that as a surgeon he has certain skills but as for the general doctoring skills others seemed to have-uh, not so much. When it comes to cardiac arrest, we, the surgeons, do not get any respect. When it comes to severe trauma, a general surgeon is
Doctor, heal thyself first
There are plenty of resources across Canada to help physicians stay healthy Yes, physician health matters because physicians are a valuable human resource. From Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2006, I was in Ottawa attending the 2006 International Conference on Physician Health. It was organized by the Canadian Medical
We’re Clinicians, Not Mere Technicians
Dr. Ronald Witzke’s letter (“Colonoscopy should be top colon CA screening test,” the Medical Post, March 9) is interesting. He implies my earlier letter (“Flexible sigmoidoscopy should be encouraged,” Feb. 3) recommends flexible sigmoid-oscopy as a screening tool for colorectal
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Should Be Encouraged
“Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Should Be Encouraged” I would like to comment on the two reports from Baltimore on the subject of colonoscopy as a screening tool (“Symptoms not enough to predict women’s colorectal CA,” and “Colonoscopy screening: specialists walk the talk,”
Captivating Venezia (Venice)
I first read about Venice (Venezia), Italy when I was in high school in Tanzania. We were reading William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. I never thought that one day I would get a chance to visit Venice, described by some to be the most beautiful and the most captivating city in the world. It was
Headshave for Docs for Cancer
Missed a spot. For some it�s a fashion statement, for others a genetic inevitability. But when Dr. Noorali Bharwani went bald recently, it was all for a good cause. The general surgeon from Medicine Hat, Alberta, volunteered to have his head shaved at Relay for Life, a Canadian Cancer Society fundraiser
Quick Q & A with The Medical Post
The Medical Post November 19, 2002 Quick Q & A with Dr. Noorali Bharwani – a general surgeon in Medicine Hat, Alta. What is your least favourite medical procedure that you regularly perform? Not a medical procedure but part of it: filling insurance forms. What book are you reading? Jacalyn
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Damn cheap architects! In July/August, I went to Europe with my family. We visited London, Oxford, Paris, Geneva, Venice, Florence, Pisa, Rome and Vatican City. It was interesting to visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Its construction began in August of 1173. It took about 200
Holiday in Alaska – Boats, trains and helicopters.
There’s more than one way to see beautiful Alaska – and you don’t have to stick to just one. I had been dreaming of an Alaskan cruise for a long time. Now that our children are a little older – Alia is 10 years old and Hussein is 12 – my wife Sabiya and I felt this was the
