Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life
of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents …

Neither system or culture is perfect; a blend just might be. I can't say that one is definitely
better, only different. Many Canadian doctors have emigrated only to return within a year or …

Welcome to the first issue of the Asia Pacific Family Medicine. For us, as the editors, this
represents a significant moment in time–a little like the birth of a child. The gestation has …

Editorials important for some people, especially for those who had practised in larger
centres where hospital care tended to be under the direction of consultants. Physicians in …

I still clearly remember one of my first visits as a family physician to a small Native*
community in northern Canada. I feel fortunate to have experienced the untouched beauty of …

Living in the countryside, time moves a little bit slower. The people are friendly, neighbours
look out for one another and denizens are grateful for the miles that separate them from the …

Last year at the SRPC's annu-al conference in Colling-wood, Ont., the former president of
The College of Family Phy sicians of Canada (CFPC) extended an invitation to the SRPC to …

If we are to slow the revolving door, we need to help with integration. Doctors and spouses
need to network in order to reduce levels of depression and stress. The community needs to …

Patient-rights bills have been before both the House of Representatives and Senate
recently, but early this spring President George Bush was vowing to reject both versions and …

Thirty years ago, the proposal of a textbook entitled Urban Family Medicine would
undoubtedly have been greeted with skepticism. The field known at that time as general …