Alberta Doctors' Digest

Part of effective management is identifying what tasks are critical for you to complete and those that can be assigned to others.

The inquiry into Preferential Access to Publicly Funded Services has concluded, pending the issuance of a final report by the commissioner.

Alberta doctors volunteer their time to good causes both here and abroad. The Alberta Medical Association (AMA) is celebrating how these simple actions can lead to big changes.

Dr. Dennis W. Jirsch, Editor, talks about his mound of past ADD issues that has grown to overflowing and rereading previous articles. The opinions expressed in Alberta Doctors’ Digest are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of the Alberta Medical Association or its Board of Directors. The association reserves the right to edit all letters to the editor. The Alberta Medical Association assumes no responsibility or liability for damages arising from any error or omission or from the use of any information or advice contained in Alberta Doctors’ Digest. Advertisements included in Alberta Doctors’ Digest are not necessarily endorsed by the Alberta Medical Association.

Dr. Noel B. Hershfield offers feedback on family care clinics.

On January 17, the University of Alberta kicked off celebrations marking a major milestone for the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. The faculty--the first in Alberta, where thousands of Alberta's doctors and internationally renowned researchers have been trained--turns 100 this year.

Be prepared for a totally new experience with Windows 8. Dr. J. Barrie McCombs shares his insights into the redesigned operating system.

Pre-Frankenhealth, Alberta was in the top one-third of provinces for expertise and speed in decision-making on funding cancer related drugs and diagnostic tests; now, after the Great Leap Forward, we are probably in the bottom one-third.

It may be surprising to learn that Critical Illness insurance was not the brain-child of an insurance company, but of a doctor who helped with the very first heart transplants. He saw patients surviving what used to kill them, but at great financial cost.

Profound change often happens quietly and slowly--the "slow hunch" often developed over a very long time. So it has been with the tremendous changes occuring in medicine over the last 20 years.