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Dr. Dara Behroozi Dr. Susan Biali Dr. George Burden Yvette Cardozo Dr. Holly Fong Dr. Art Hister Dr. Marlene Hunter Joseph Lieberman Dr. Chris Pengilly Dr. Neil Pollock Manfred Purtzki Dr. Kelly Silverthorn Corey Van’t Haaff Yvette Cardozo
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10 river trek Cruising through Yukon wilderness and history 30 sand surf Adventure and wildlife in Namibia’s dunes
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clockwise from top left: joseph lieberman; yvette cardozo (2)
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A couple walks atop the sand dunes of Sossusvlei in south central Namibia. The red colour of the sand comes from the high amount of iron oxide particles.
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ummer typically means family outings and get-togethers. The kids are out of school and the weather begs for outdoor adventure. So, what to do this summer? Figuring out the optimal family vacation can be a challenge. Should you go for something educational and inspiring or opt for the sit-back-and-sip-a-margarita getaway? Read Dr. Behroozi’s take on trying to plan a memorable family trip (page 15). Of course, one of the easiest options for summer family fun: camp. For the kids, of course, but also for you. Grand View Lodge is part of a long-running camp, but anyone can sample—or re-live!—a slice of classic summer camp by the lake (page 5). Want to get more wild? Travel down-river through the Yukon’s wilderness and fascinating history (page 10). An even more far-flung adventure awaits in Africa…Surf sand in Namibia to get your adrenaline going (page 30). And then there’s Mongolia…(page 16). Or for something unexpected, embark on an art-filled adventure in—of all places— Dallas, Texas. Get up and go!
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t of the Fishing for walleye is par nd View summer adventure at Gra tchLodge in Minnesota (ca and-release, of course !)
See page 16 for the third finalist in our R & R writing contest. Dr. Gayle Garber shares her adventure in Mongolia. Share your own adventure or leisure activity with Just For Canadian Doctors’ readers, whether at home or afar. Send a 700-word story and we may publish it in our “Prescribing R & R” column. Published submissions have a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip with Quark Expeditions (details at justforcanadiandoctors.com). We’ll continue to run the best stories in 2010. Barb Sligl, BA, MPub feedback@InPrintPublications.com
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Family viewing: Watching the sunset over Gull Lake at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, Minnesota. Lakeside family get-togethers are part of the summer lifestyle in Minnesota’s lake country…one of the state’s official slogans is “Land of 10,000 Lakes.”
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HELLO SUMMEr! Remember the lazy days of summer camp by the lake? Jumping off the dock, bunking with new friends, playing endless games, sharing stories and s’mores over the campfire? It’s quintessential summer. And it’s still going on at Camp Lincoln and Camp Lake Hubert in Minnesota’s lake country. (It’s also the famed region of Paul Bunyan axe-wielding lore…) The brother-sister camps sit across the lake from each other in Nisswa at Grand View Lodge. Generations of families have been coming here every summer for over 100 years now, grandkids learning to sail on the same lake as their grandparents, with the same shenanigans going on between the separate girls’ and boys’ camps. To relive some of that carefree summer bliss, go back to camp… Camp Lake Hubert’s Family Camp is a five-day all-inclusive camp for families. Or go more upscale at historic Grand View Lodge on neighbouring Gull Lake, where campers’ parents have escaped for over 90 years. Bring the family here for a luxe version of camp. >>
CME / CAMP? CME events are a bit like adult camp—an educational get-together with peers away from home. You learn new things, take part in activities—all while blowing off plenty of steam. And at Grand View Lodge you can actually mix CME with camp! The lakeside resort has a new con and can accommodate groups of up to 500 with full-service catering, professional event planning, activities, entertainment, lodging, dining, golf May/June 2010 Just For Canadian Doctors
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>> There’s gourmet fare at a variety of eateries (from family-style dining at Italian Gardens, boasting dishes like wild mushroom ravioli, to fresh-caught walleye in the Grand Dining Room), championship golf (with S’mores on the shore four courses to choose from, rated in the top-100 in the US by Golf Magazine), and a full-service spa (including pedicures for the whole family, kids and dads too!). For some back-to-basics summer fun, fish for walleye on the lake or make your own s’mores lakeside. With the sun setting over the still water, the sand still warm on your toes, and the hum of summer Walleye caught on Gull Lake (this one, crickets in the air, that s’more catch-and-release!) will bring back some sweet memories, along with some new ones… —B. Sligl
Planning a summer adventure near the gadget water? Pack a kayak alongside your swimsuit, flip-flops and sunscreen. The Citibot is a fully collapsible kayak. Fold it, stow it, expand it, use it… Like a tent, you simply pull it apart and then put it back together on shore…whether it’s at the lake, river or seaside. At just 24 pounds, it morphs into a small package that takes minutes to assemble. It’s an easy way to pack some adventure in your luggage this summer. Brilliant. —B.S. folbot.com
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the ultimate travel tool for the gear/ directionally gadget challenged When it comes to travel the iPhone may become indispensable. One must-have tool for the adventurous traveller: The built-in app Maps. It’s a mega mix—think Google Maps with GPS and a digital compass. Get turn-by-turn directions or follow a highlighted map route and track your progress with GPS—walking or driving. Want to explore a new city like a local? Get public transit directions. Bookmark addresses for hotels, shops, museums, restaurants…check out local landmarks. And the built-in digital compass rotates maps to match the direction you’re facing. Or use the compass on its own. It works just like a magnetic needle compass so intrepid adventurers always know the way. Start navigating. —B.S. apple.ca
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And some of France’s best-loved characters and places The are his sensory stories in Histoires de Parfums. Personnages Principaux in Gérald Ghislain’s fragrances include George Sand (spicy and amber), Colette (fresh citrus because she was “fresh in everything she did,” says Ghislain), and Jules Verne (oceanic, of course). Each fragrance is named for the year the Personnages Principaux were born. So with a spritz of “1804”, the sensory story of George Sand, you’ll exude her courageous spirit and that of the literary world she shone in: a newly modern and Each perfume, named for the year these French legends sensual Paris. were born, tells a story. For Ghislain, an opera fan, his perfumes are like impressionistic arias. From the South of France himself, this epicureanturned-perfumier has been creating his cutting-edge perfumes since 1999. One of his latest scents is “1889,” which celebrates the infamous Parisian cabaret Moulin Rouge. There’s also a travel pack of three mini bottles— pick a different scent for a different destination. Feeling seaworthy? Travel to “1828” and channel some Jules Verne… —B.S. histoiresdeparfums.com
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The Age of Wonder, now out in paperback, delves into the late-18thcentury era of Romantic science. Reallife characters driven by “wonder” to pivotal discoveries and inventions include botanist Joseph Banks, who sailed to Tahiti in 1769 with Captain Cook in search of Paradise, and chemist Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments led him to the discovery of the properties of
nitrous oxide and the invention of the miner’s safety lamp. Author Richard Holmes, winner of a National Book Critics Circle award for this book, follows this second scientific revolution— astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical. These characters, driven by “wonder” brought “a new imaginative intensity and excitement to scientific work” and “produced a new vision which has rightly been called Romantic science.” Like the chemist Davy, who rocked the intellectual community with his radical scientific views preDarwin, and influenced the great Romantic writers and poets Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. Religious faith and scientific truth do more than just clash in The Age of Wonder—the term “romantic science” isn’t an oxymoron. Keats may have famously made reference to Newton’s science unweaving a rainbow’s mystery and allure, but this book shows how the era’s scientific breakthroughs were just as awe-inspiring. —B.S. randomhouse.ca
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Dr. Ram came to Canada 10 years ago to study medicine and build a practice. “I’ve lived in condominiums ever since I left Malaysia because they suit my lifestyle,” says Dr. Ram. “I’m not ready for the picket fence yet. With the kind of work that I do, I need to have a place that’s convenient and accessible to the things that I like to do and the Trump Tower is all that.” Dr. Soloway grew up in New York and took his medical training in Philadelphia, specializing in medical orthopaedics. He sees as many as 500 patients per week in his New Jersey clinic and he loves to visit Toronto. He finds it a lot like major cities in the United States, only smaller, safer and cleaner. “My favourite part about Toronto is I see it as a major metropolitan city, but because it’s a little bit smaller, it has a more ‘home-like’ feeling and the streets are clean. It features major sports just as if it is any US city on a large, world-class scale,” says Soloway. Donald Trump (left) and Dr. Stephen Soloway are equally enthusiastic about Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto.
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Toronto’s downtown real estate market offers many advantages to urban professionals who want to stay close to business centres and key professional and cultural institutions. Says Ram, “The city is still priced very well and it offers so much, easily as much as Chicago, London or Paris. Also, Toronto is a very safe environment. The education is top-notch. The people are friendly. The list goes on, but in my mind it’s an ideal society.” As a world leading centre for medical research and innovation, Toronto houses North America’s fourth largest medical community, including 100 hospitals and research institutions, nine teaching hospitals and more than 30 specialized institutions. It has a thriving medical and biotech community, and is a home for providers of pharmaceutical products, medical devices and technology, diagnostic labs, health care services, IT systems and hospital supplies. Of all the buildings in the city of Toronto, Dr. Ram chose Trump International Hotel & Tower because it is close to the hospital and convention centres and because he recognized the exceptional quality of the Toronto Trump property. “There are a couple of reasons why I frequent Toronto. One is for the social life. Fantastic restaurants, nightlife, and culture that’s easily accessible,” says Ram. “But more importantly, I come here for my work. The hospitals, physicians and even the conferences held in Toronto are top-notch and world-renowned.”
Soloway loves the convenience of Trump Toronto. “Convenience is the ability for you to arrange your life so it’s as easy as possible with as few bumps in the road. If you can set that up for yourself, you have convenience.” He also loves the excellence. “Trump is the newest. He offers the best product.”
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Dr. Soloway is such a fan of the Trump brand that over the years, he has purchased 33 Trump properties in a variety of cities, including Chicago, New York and now Toronto. “For me, the Trump experience has allowed me luxury, security and a convenient lifestyle.” Dr. Ram, who bought a 600 square foot suite, recently visited the model suite and described it as “600 square feet of pure luxury.” He is so smitten with Trump Toronto that he is considering buying a penthouse suite as well. “The Trump brand, to me, embodies style, elegance and exclusivity. I do not believe that there is such a building or project in Toronto today that embodies that spirit. I am proud to be partaking in something that Toronto is going to be very proud of.” Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto luxury hotel condominiums are priced from $900,000; private residences are priced from $2.1-million (CAD). Sales are by appointment only. The sales office is located at 120 Adelaide Street West, Suite 110; telephone number is 416-214-2800 or toll-free at 1-866-91-TRUMP. Visit the web site at trumptoronto.ca/candocs
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anadian doctor Ganesh Ram and American doctor Stephen Soloway both recently purchased suites in one of Toronto’s most exclusive real estate properties, the 60-storey Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto®. Malaysian-born Ram, who practices medicine in London, Ontario and New York-born Soloway, who runs a busy clinic in New Jersey, have chosen Toronto’s Trump Tower as their home base in Canada’s largest city. With Toronto’s real estate market continually growing and construction of the Tower on schedule to open in 2011, the doctors are delighted with the luxury lifestyle and convenience that the Trump Tower promises them.
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travel at home properties, and feeds us wild berries like bush cranberries. There’d have been no scurvy among the stampeders if they’d listened to local First Nations. We continue the cruise up Lake Laberge’s 30-mile coast. We pause for a hike and I notice colourful beach glass, worn by wave action, no doubt dating from the Klondike. A hill climb gives us a view of the spectacular rocky lake shoreline, streaked with gold from the changing aspen, birch and alder leaves. We then stop at the abandoned community of Lower Laberge for a shore-side picnic lunch, followed by a cruise up the so-called Thirty Mile River, an official Canadian heritage river. Cruising along Thirty Mile, we enjoy glorious sunshine and the constantly changing scenery of craggy hills and mountains, interspersed with sightings of wildlife such as black bear, eagles, hawks and migratory waterfowl on the run from the rapidly approaching change of season. At the end of Thirty Mile, near the ghost town of Hootalinqua, we pay a visit to Evelyn, a lady over 90 years old who lives alone on Steamboat Island. Chris leads us along a path to this page, clockthe centre of the island wise from top Misty morning on where Evelyn, a stillCoffee Creek. > gorgeous steamboat Gourmet dinner abandoned by her of fresh trout, owners, awaits us. asparagus and From here we berry mousse board Beaver and at LaBarge. Cessna float planes > Isolated to Homestead Lodge. Homestead The flight is graced Lodge on Pelly with myriad rainbows River. > One of framing emerald green Pelly Farm’s ownalpine lakes, colourful ers, Hugh Bradley, stands of aspen and now pushing 80, birch, and the turquoise with an old potato waters of the Yukon planter. Hugh and River. his farm were Homestead Lodge profiled in a 1978 overlooks the Pelly edition of National River and nestles up Geographic. to isolated Pelly Farm (the farm was profiled in a 1978 edition of National Geographic). We dine on thick slices of Pelly Farm prime rib and farm-fresh vegetables before gathering round the campfire for readings of Robert Service—The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew and the lesser known but hilarious Bessie’s Boil. And later, in the wee hours, we awake to a spectacular show: the Northern Lights. In the morning, a handful of brave souls leave before breakfast to bike and hike to a lookout point that gives incredible views of the misty, sunlit Pelly River. I pick handfuls of fresh wild sage (carefully sparing the roots). The First Nations people consider a sprig of sage hanging in the home to spiritually cleanse and purify. Back at the lodge, I sprinkle a little on my free-range eggs from the farm. The following day we continue by riverboat to where the White River enters the Yukon.
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We check into the Downtown Hotel, infamous for serving the Sourtoe Cocktail, a tradition begun in 1973 when Captain Dick Stevenson found a mummified frostbitten big toe and started using it as a drink garnish. Those brave enough to allow the digit to touch their lips get a special certificate. A tour of the town reveals many restored buildings from the Klondike Gold Rush era. Diamond Tooth Gertie’s offers a casino, a bar and can-can dancers. The Palace Grand, a National Historic Site, has vaudeville shows in season. Visitors can also explore Pierre Berton’s childhood home and the cabins of Jack London and Robert Service, where Parks Canada employees give poetry readings wearing period costume. If gold fever strikes, there’s plenty of gold-nugget jewelry in town. Mammoth ivory, found when digging for gold, is also popular. Or there’s panning at Claim 33 and a tour of a restored gold dredge and the original Discovery Claim where George Carmack (or his wife Katie, if you choose to disbelieve “lyin’ George”) found gold in 1896. A prospector named Doyle owned Dredge No. 4. From the Yukon, he moved to Romania, had an affair with Queen Marie, and helped smuggle Russian aristocrats out of post-Revolutionary Russia. Typical Klondike panache.
Stopping here, we observe how the grayish, silt laden glacial waters of the White contrast with the clear water of the Yukon. We hike past a small creek, staked with the double post of a prospector, and up a hill to view Shamrock Dome. A recent gold discovery here is thought to be the mother lode of gold in the area. Wilderness Lodge is our next destination along the river. Aptly named, this encampment is located far from any town or road. The camp manager tells us he recently spotted a wolf pack and a cow moose. Hiking to a nearby slough, we see the moose prints and a wolf’s paw print the size of my hand. That evening we dine on fresh bison stew, sip drinks around the campfire, and admire the Northern Lights from a woodheated cedar hot tub. I retire to my “tent,” equipped with a wooden fabric-covered floor, comforter-bedecked bed, propane stove and separate bathroom with full-size tub and running water. This is “roughing it” in the wilderness. After an ample breakfast, we head downstream for the final leg of our journey to Dawson City. We pass the famous Klondike River, whose tributary, Bonanza Creek, is the site of the discovery that sparked the famous Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 – 1899.
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hange is inevitable. For the most part I like change. At times change can make me anxious. Change is occurring all the time. Some changes we take for granted like day and night, the seasons, the growing cycle of our gardens. Sometimes we invite change as when we go away for a holiday. What we cannot do is stop change. We can slow it, modify it or accelerate it, but there is no way that it will be stopped. Change can be good as, for example, the innovation of minimally invasive major surgery and the introduction of Employment Insurance for one whole year for new parents. A change with which I am less happy is the marshalling of medicine, particularly primary care, into managed-care by the exponentially increasing number of
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medical practice guidelines. The Canadian Medical Association now has more than 1,200 practice guidelines, with 74 for the management of cardiovascular disease alone. I am uncertain about other provinces, but in British Columbia fees are paid to family physicians for the management of selected chronic conditions. These fees, however, are contingent upon following clinical practice guidelines. Guidelines, to a large extent, have become railway lines that increase healthcare costs by requiring unnecessary investigations while ignoring the patient’s own values. It is my opinion that many of the guidelines put too much emphasis on laboratory results and pharmaceutical interventions while under-emphasising the benefits of lifestyle modification. Trying to follow clinical guidelines can be demoralizing for the physician. We deal with patients (I refuse to refer to them as “clients”) who are real human beings with real human properties all distributed along the bell curve. Most physicians are obsessive compulsive to some extent and do not take failure to achieve goals well. So we are at risk of becoming disheartened when not all of our type-II diabetic patients have a BMI of 23, A1c < 7.0 and a BP of 130/70. There is also the anxiety of the threat of a provincial insurance audit. It was therefore with some comfort that I read that these sentiments were voiced by several of the attendees at the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Primary Care Summit in Toronto, Ontario, in January. Some speakers felt that many of the guidelines are based on less than perfect studies and/or reflect fallible expert opinions. I think the release of the ACCORD (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Blood Pressure Trial) study helped
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to fuel this doubt and skepticism. This convincingly showed no benefit from tight diabetic control in type-II diabetics, and in fact showed a clear increase in overall mortality in that group. The data could also be interpreted as showing no benefit, and possible harm, from the previously recommended stringent measured lipid control with a combination of a statin and a fibrate. The findings of this trial could be further extrapolated to suggest treating with a statin regardless of the lipid levels. A small dose for a medium cardiovascular risk patient, and a large dose for a higher risk patient. Aiming for ever-lower LDL levels has little therapeutic value at the cost of too many valuable healthcare dollars. Guidelines should do just that—guide rather than drive medicine. I now feel better when I tell my modestly overweight stable diabetic patient that when they go on holiday they should leave their glucose meter (a daily reminder that they have a “disease”) at home. One or two weeks of suboptimal control will do them little physical harm but will be a tremendous boost to their morale. When counselling patients I put more emphasis on a regular realistic activity (I try to avoid the term “exercise”) program than on stringent weight loss. If my 80-year-old patient has not weighed less than 160 pounds for more than 50 years, then she is not about to get down to the recommended BMI. Is this negligent? Is this pragmatic? It’s probably ignoring the guidelines, but respecting the patient’s own values. Finally, I will mention that this subject is covered in a light but thorough way by the Therapeutics Education Collaboration in a series of podcasts available at no cost through iTunes or at therapeuticseducation.org.
Guidelines have become railway lines that increase healthcare costs
aqueous humour Dr. dara behroozi Dr. Dara Behroozi is Just For Canadian Doctors’ humour columnist. He practises medicine, plays soccer and enjoys single-malt.
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world, even one fellow from Oxford who was working in Cambodia at the time. He had memorized all the stats for every country. The last case of human rabies where we were had been three years ago, and there were lots of monkey bites. But he told us to get the vaccine if we could. It was academic in any case. We spent three days criss-crossing the country chasing a dose of rabies vaccine that was present when we called, but not when we arrived. Eventually the long-suffering insurance company offered to fly us to the nearest US city where a dose would be waiting for us. I think they were hoping they could end our holiday, which had already racked up huge costs for them. We decided to submit to serendipity and continue our trip, with the added anxiety of wondering whether that was the right decision. Add in some heat stroke, a couple of stints of diarrhea, some near misses when the car broke down in a bad neighbourhood, and my stress levels kept rising. As to imbuing the kids with a sense of how lucky they were, well, they did notice the poverty and the reaction was: “Thank God we don’t live here.” There were promises of donating pocket money and raising funds from lemonade stands to send back. Of course, upon arrival home, all the good intentions were forgotten and the demands for PS3s, X-boxes and other mind-altering technological devices were taken up again. After that holiday, I decided to go for the safety of a family cruise out of LA sailing to Puerto Vallarta and back. “Non-stop Fun for the Whole Family,” said the brochure. No excitement, no ruins, no monkeys…perfect. Upon boarding we were taken on a tour of the many child-friendly activities— climbing walls, game arcades, pools, etc.—conspicuously few adult ones. We were shown the rather shabby casino where some losers had already parked themselves in front of slot machines with rum-andcokes. When we got to the room, my wife called the purser. “There is a faint smell of urine,” he laughed and replied. “What do you expect, it’s a family cruise line.” Safety and peace of mind were achieved
at the cost of enjoyment for anyone over the age of 13. Hurricane season meant the captain decided not to go to Mexico but to do small loops in the Pacific Ocean near LA, which was never far out of sight. We were told that the small print stated clearly that the cruise line did not have to take us anywhere. So I read. I partook in the “family-friendly” food buffets (or lots of fried and sweet food) until I craved some salmon and a nice salad. After three days I picked up my rum-and-coke and took my place in front of a slot machine until the nightmare came to an end. My advice is to leave the munchkins at home with the grannies and climb Machu Picchu, row into the Blue Grotto, scale Kilimanjaro… Then once a year take the kids to an allinclusive resort where they can have fun and you can have an endless margarita. They’ll thank you for it, and so will you.
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ongolia. Remote, mysterious, home of Genghis Khan, it has grasslands, the Gobi Desert, years of history and more sheep than humans. It’s also the fulfillment of a dream of riding across the windy steppes on a wild Mongolian pony. It may have been due to physician burnout, but I decided to go to Mongolia. Step aside, Julia Roberts. The adventure began in Beijing. To get to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, my husband and I booked a “first-class compartment on the incredible Trans Mongolia railway,” a direct quote from the travel brochure. Having already taken the first-class train from Beijing to Lhasa, Tibet, two weeks earlier, we were somewhat jaded in our expectations of socalled superior amenities. I put off a trip to the WC because of the squat variety I’d encountered previously— smelly and hard on the knees. But Russian influence may still be evident in Mongolia and on this train; I discovered the biggest, boldest, stainless-steel sit-down toilet. The effluent flushed straight to the tracks, but, nonetheless, this toilet was a beauty. After arriving in Ulaanbaatar, our first stop was lunch at a restaurant named Modern Nomads, where I bought my first Mongolian souvenir, a T-shirt with the caption “Men eat meat, animals eat grass.” Over the next few days, we visited museums, slept in a tourist gher at Gan-Galuut Nature Reserve, saw herds of yaks, camels and horses, sedately rode quiet ponies (not the wild ones of my dreams), and feasted on Mongolian barbecues.
The Mongolian barbecue is not a barbecue as we know it, but a dinner of boiled meat, potatoes and vegetables. Rocks are boiled with the food and served alongside the meal for health. A hot rock placed on my sore throat felt good, and the next morning my cold symptoms had disappeared. We flew from Ulaanbaatar to Dalanzadgad, the town closest to the South Gobi Desert. A guide and driver took us 40 miles across the desert to the Gobi Discovery Tourist Camp. There was no road, but the driver appeared to have an inner compass. With our guide acting as interpreter, we discovered that the driver had been a famous wrestler and won many medals in the Naadam festivals. Our first day in the Gobi, the desert was cold and there was quite a windstorm. We settled into our gher, and our guide suggested that instead of hiking in dinosaur country, we should visit a family of nomads. To do this, a local guide and our driver navigated across the desert. At times we seemed lost, but in Mongolia as in Canada, men don’t stop to ask directions. Camels, sheep, yaks and vultures were the only living creatures to be seen—alongside the occasional abandoned broken-down motorcycle. After an hour of driving, we stopped at a white gher with a traditional painted wooden door. Outside, the owner and his 12-year-old son (both wearing western jeans and T-shirts, not the traditional deel I was expecting) were lassoing and training horses in a pen.
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Inside, the lady of the gher—40something, frumpy-looking, overweight— was dressed like a peasant in a dirty housedress and apron. The gher was cluttered and smelled of smoke. Our female guide and I were offered plastic stools; the men sat, knees bent, on the rug-covered floor. We were offered Russian candy and a dish of camel cheese. When the owner and his son joined us, snuff was passed to the men and fermented camel milk to the women. How quaint…Then I saw the cell phone hanging from the tent roof, and the generator-powered washing machine and refrigerator. And the TV. The nomadic lady began talking politics, eager for an exchange of information. She talked of the bombings in New York City, the election of Mongolia’s president, the worldwide recession and its effect on the sales of their cashmere. And then she spoke with great enthusiasm about the Obama inauguration. I was struck by the fact that while I had stolen minutes from my busy day to watch the historic event in Washington, DC, she had done the same. We were two individuals on this planet, 15,000 miles apart, who had simultaneously watched a ceremony that we thought might make the world a better place. The journey to this remote gher, in this remote area of the desert, in this remote country, reminded me that all humans are equal, and that we need to take time from our busy schedules to seek out these types of experiences that only travel provides.
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Monterey is for motorheads Don’t miss car buffs’ big get-together in California
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onterey, California, is the place for a classic car nut to be in mid August. In truth, the list of high quality events has grown to fill the entire week. An enthusiast could return every August of their life and never duplicate an event itinerary. Sure, there’s racing to watch. The Rolex Monterey Historic Races draw an amazing entry of 450 invited cars of historical significance. These racers run in 16 different classes over three days at stunning Laguna Seca. The racetrack is a few miles inland (out of the coastal fog) in the hills above Monterey Bay. Porsche was the featured marque in 2009, with multiple Le Mans, FI, and Targa Florio Porsche Museum exhibits for the assembled masses to drool over. (Note to self: bring own spittle cup). The Porsche Clubs were also out in force, with the owners’ parade circling Laguna Seca hundreds of cars deep. The Porsche factory also chose Laguna Seca for the North American debut of their Panamera “four door sports car.” Multiple examples of the new sedan were caned around the racetrack and peninsula as pace cars and test-drives. A feature of Monterey is the ability to search out multiple demo fleets for test drives. This year, there was Porsche, Hyundai (yes, the excellent Genesis Coupe), Spyker, Maybach, McLaren-Mercedes, Iconic, and even the Bugatti Veyron. We squeezed in the Maybach and McLaren-Mercedes drives, but mysteriously were left off the Bugatti list. I’ll have to have a word with my agent. Most of the demo fleets were across the Monterey Peninsula from Laguna Seca at Pebble Beach Lodge. There are many events going on at Pebble all weekend, but come Sunday morning the 18th-fairway is squarely in the limelight, when the 150 invited cars for the world-renowned Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance shine. A post-WW II car has yet to win this event; 2009’s winner was a 1937 Horch 853 Sport Cabriolet. There are several ways to end up with a car at the Pebble Beach Concours. Restore a barn find, or buy an already restored car at one of the many auctions. Auction houses present in 2009: RM, Gooding and Company, Kruse, Mecum, Bonhams and Butterfields, Russo and Steele, and MidAmerica. Hundreds of cars, and well over one hundred million dollars, changed hands. Pinnacle cars continued to set world-record prices: $7.7 million USD for a Shelby Daytona Coupe, the highest ever paid at auction for
an American car. We spent most of our auction time at the RM three-evening sale in our hotel, the Portolo. RM is Canadian, and kindly included 600 Targa Canada West postcards in their (well-heeled) bidder bags. I had a blast each evening walking the RM auction staging lanes, giving each car a 30-second look, and seeing if I could peg the estimated sale price range. My prognostication was pretty good for cars < $350,000. I’ll have to talk to my accountant about putting a collector car into the RRSP—they can’t do worse than natural gas has! Short a couple hundred thou for a collector car? There is still much to peruse in Monterey. How about die-cast cars in 1:18 scale? Automobilia, from vintage gas pumps to historic racing posters? A computer racing simulator? Motoring art, sculpture, painting,
original or print…yup, in spades. Magazine samples? Book signings? All-Italian car shows? All of it happening at Monterey. If you collect autographs, there are some interesting ones to stalk. We ran into Jay Leno, and his buddy Jerry Seinfeld… both huge car fanatics. Driving greats who survived the Golden Era were also everywhere, with elder statesman Stirling Moss underfoot, and the merely grizzled Brian Redmond, Derek Bell, or Vic Elford all available to chat about the Spa-Francorchamps back in the day. But be forewarned. Taking in Monterey’s car extravaganza is a bit like listening to your buddy’s killer stereo. The experience is great while you’re in the moment, but leaves you jaded to lesser quality for sometime after.
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Nasher Sculpture Center: art by Jaume Plensa in the lobby (left) + Torso With Buds by Jean Arp (below)
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hen you think of Dallas, do 10-gallon hats, cowboy boots and big, shiny belt buckles come to mind? Or maybe the lone-star symbol of the state and the love-’em-or-hate-’em NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys? Well, Dallas does have all that, but it’s also surprisingly sophisticated. This is one arty town… Stay downtown and you’re within the 19-block Dallas Arts District, with access to a host of museums, galleries, a stellar performing arts centre (including the architecturally innovative Opera House) for dance, theatre and the symphony, and even the renowned progressive Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Oh, and shopping… [stay] Make the Sheraton Dallas your home base. This mega hotel is ideal for any CME event. It’s minutes from the Dallas Convention Center, and itself has over 230,000 square feet of ballrooms, boardrooms, and entertainment suites for functions of any size. For post-conference relief, go to the hotel’s Draft Media Sports Bar; belt it out in the karaoke rooms, challenge colleagues at Wii stations, or shoot some good, old-fashioned pool. And the cuisine is swish—dishes
please the palate in pretty packages, from bamboo bento-like boxes of grilled veggies to personal Le Creuset pots of Indian pudding. And premium Texas beef too, if you must…More to savour: With a recent 91-million-dollar revamp, the Sheraton Dallas has implemented plenty of green initiatives. The hotel is making big eco steps with energy-saving automated temperature control in guest rooms and a ground-breaking “Make a Green Choice” program. For each day you choose to not have your room cleaned you’re rewarded with $5 (or 500 Starwood points) to redeem at any of the hotel’s eateries. The hotel may be Texas big, but it’s a green giant. sheratondallashotel.com [museum hop] From the Sheraton, it’s a short stroll to the Dallas Museum of Art, a stunning, huge repository of art, from fascinating modern art (including Canada’s own David Altmejd’s work) to unique treasures like the giant four-poster bed (with posts over 13-feet high) made for US presidential candidate Henry Clay in 1844 (the bed was meant for him in the White House, but he lost…). dallasmuseumofart.org Next, cross the street to the Nasher Sculpture Center and be blown away by the collection of modern art
on display inside and out in the beautiful gardens. See one of Raymond and Patsy Nasher‘s first modern-art purchases, Jean Arp’s Torso with Buds, as well as work by Picasso, Moore, Brancusi, and exhibits of modern masters like Spain’s Jaume Plensa. nashersculpturecenter.org A few more steps, and you’re inside another art mecca: The Crow Center of Asian Art. The must-see: jade crickets astride a delicate leaf—meticulously carved from one piece of stone. The Lotus Shop features fabulous Asian-inspired pieces to take home. crowcollection.com [shop it] Heard of legendary department store Neiman Marcus? The first store—the flagship—is another short walk away. Step inside and get a slice of the golden era of department store glamour. The posh still frequent the store for the latest luxury goods (like sparkly Manolos), private fashion shows and personalized shopping. Browse, then sit back in the top-floor restaurant, The Zodiac, where nubile beauties model clothes while ladies lunch. Sip a martini and nosh—indulge in the famous Mandarin Orange Soufflé…or grab a signature Neiman Marcus cookie. neimanmarcus.com —B. Sligl For more info: thedallasartsdistrict.org
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858-652-5400
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Sep 02-03
San Diego California
12th National Kaiser Permanente Hospital Medicine Conference
Meetings by Design
800-700-2636
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Jun 20-26
Jerusalem Israel
NEI Conference Series - Ethics And Health Care Professionals
National Education Institute
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Sep 14-21
Taormina Italy
Pan Europe Asia Medical & Legal Conference
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Oct 18-20
Tucson Arizona
Forensic Review Course Of American Academy Of Psychiatry & The Law
AAPL
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Aug 28Sep 03
San Francisco California
American Society Of Nephrology 15th Annual Board Review Course & Update
American Society of Nephrology
202-416-0675
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Oct 20-23
Boston Massachusetts
2010 Cardiometabolic Health Congress
Cardiometabolic Health
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cardiometabolichealth.org
Nov 16-21
Denver Colorado
Renal Week 2010
American Society of Nephrology
202-416-0675
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Pathology
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Oncology & Palliative Care
Nutrition
Neurology
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Jun 17-19
Chicago Illinois
8th Annual Conference & Workshops Of American Academy Of Clinical Neuropsychology
American Academy Of Clinical Neuropsychology
734-936-8269
umich.edu
Jul 05-06
Krakow Poland
7th Satellite Symposium On Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Konig & Muller
011-49-9314607-9033
koenigundmueller.de
Aug 27-28
New York New York
16th Annual Perspectives In Breast Cancer
Imedex
770-751-7332
imedex.com
Sep 13-16
Jeju South Korea
38th Annual Meeting Of The International Society For Pediatric Neurosurgery
ISPN
gmcomb@chla. usc.edu
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Dec 03-07
San Antonio Texas
2010 American Epilepsy Society’s Annual Meeting
American Epilepsy Society
703-960-1213
aesnet.org
Aug 23-31
Cape Town South Africa
15th World Congress Of Food Science And Technology Of The International Union Of Food Science & Technology
IUFOST
905-815-1926
iufost.org
Sep 23-25
Porto Portugal
2nd World Congress Of Public Health Nutrition/1st Latin American Congress Of Community Nutrition
Skyros Congressos
011-315-22616-5450
skyros-congressos.com
Nov 04-05
San Francisco California
10th Annual Nutrition & Wellness In Health & Disease
Mayo School
800-323-2688
mayo.edu
Jun 17-19
Charlottetown Prince Edward Island
14th Annual Atlantic Canada Oncology Group Symposium
EDS Management
902-894-2027
acog.byethost18.com
Jul 07-10
Cancun Mexico
5th Inter-American Breast Cancer Conference
International Conference Services
604-681-2153
iabcc.org
Aug 14-21
Alaskan Cruise
Palliative Care
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888-647-7327 See Ad Page 20
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Jul 18-23
Montreal Quebec
19th Biennial Meeting Of The International Society For Eye Research
Kenes International
011-41-22-9080488
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Aug 20-22
Vilnius Lithuania
13th Forum Ophthalmologicum Balticum
AIM Group Baltic
011-370-52120004
fob2010.com
Sep 16-18
Ottawa Ontario
Sally Letson Symposia: University Of Ottawa Eye Institute
University of Ottawa Eye Institute, Ottawa Hospital
613-737-8575
eyeinstitute.net
Nov 19-22
New York New York
Ocular Surgery News New York 2010
Vindico Medical Education
856-994-9400
osnny.com
Jul 10-13
Montreal Quebec
61st Annual Meeting Of The Canadian Association Of Pathologists
Canadian Association of Pathologists
800-668-3740
cap-acp.org
Sep 01-04
Banff Alberta
2010 Banff Pathology Course: Lymph Node Pathology (Mostly Adult)
Banff Pathology Course
403-770-3569
banffpathology. ucalgary.ca
Sep 11-15
Salzburg Austria
17th International Congress of Neuropathology
Medical University of Vienna
011-43-1-404005-573
icn2010.org
new CME list from Adam
CAAM 7th Annual Conference November 19 - 20, 2010 Delta Chelsea HotelToronto, Ontario Invited Speakers confirmed: Dr. Ali Adibfar, Toronto Dr. Doris Day, New York Dr. Michael Ghalili, New York Dr. Charles Lynde, Markham Dr. Wendy Smeltzer, Calgary
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Some of the Topics include: - The Male Patient - Cosmeceuticals - Combination Treatments - Rejuvenation of the peri-oral region/lower face - Defining Beauty For information please visit our website www.caam.ca or email info@caam.ca T: 604.685.0450 F: 604.685.0451
Brain 2010 Conference Save the Date: November 2010 Location: Vancouver, British Columbia For further information please visit www.brain2010.com or email info@congressworld.ca
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Urology
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Sep 04-11
Dallas Texas
Pediatrics Intensive Board Review Course
MedStudy
800-841-0547
medstudy.com
Sep 08
Dublin Ireland
Annual Research Day, Ireland Branch, Association For Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health
011-44-207403-7458
acamh.org.uk
Nov 04-06
Los Angeles California
8th Annual World Congress On Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease
Metabolic Endocrine Education Foundation
818-342-1889
insulinresistance.us
Aug 23-26
Whistler British Columbia
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Whistler
CBT Canada
877-466-8228
cbt.ca
Sep 30Oct 01
Vancouver British Columbia
4th Annual Pacific Psychopharmacology Conference: Psychopharmacology in Challenging Times
BC Mental Health & Addiction Services and Canadian Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists
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bcmhas.ca/ education/RVHConferences. htm
Jul 28-30
Singapore Singapore
1st International Basic Allergy Course
Rhinology Society and American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy
011-65-66182235
basicallergy.com
Sep 18-22
Barcelona Spain
2010 Annual Congress Of European Respiratory Society
European Respiratory Society
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Aug 29Sep 03
Angers France
7th International Conference On Prevention Of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders
Premus 2010
011-33-1-45886644
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Oct 07-09
Ghent Belgium
7th International Congress On Spondyloarthropathies
Medicongress
011-32-9-3443959
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Nov 28Dec 01
Liverpool England
Osteoporosis Conference 2010
National Osteoporosis Society
011-44-176147-3281
nos.org.uk
Jul 28Aug 01
Big Sky Montana
Wilderness Medicine International Conference & Scientific Assembly
ACEP, Wilderness & Travel Medicine
888-995-3088
wildernessmedicine.com
Sep 16-26
Oceania Papua New Guinea
Paediatric Emergencies Kokoda Track Trek
Medicine on the Edge
011-61-0400005-668
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Nov 14-20
Pacuare River Costa Rica
Jungle Medicine Training Course
Expedition Medicine Ltd.
011-44-1298871-156
expeditionmedicine.co.uk
Jun 23-26
Geneva Switzerland
28th International Europacs Meeting
CARS Conference Office
011-49-774292-2434
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Jul 02
Varese Italy
Gravesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Disease: 2nd International Course On Endocrine Surgery
University of Insubria
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Sep 01-04
Chicago Illinois
28th World Congress On Endourology & SWL
International Conference Services
604-639-3924
wce2010.com
Oct 10-13
Adelaide Australia
Fertility Society Of Australia 2010 Annual Conference
Waldron Smith Management
011-61-3-96456359
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4th Annual Pacific Psychopharmacology Conference 4 The conference will focus on clinical issues associated with psychiatric medication that are relevant to Primary Care Physicians as well as Psychiatrists. Increased reliance on the use psychotropic medication in more than one psychiatric illness can result in combinations of medications that add to the complexity of treatment. The conference offers you the opportunity to hear from and interact with clinicians who deal with these challenges - frequently on a day to day basis. Conference will be held at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel,, Vancouver, BC, Canada Register at: www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=2159
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| positions / vacation properties / practices / locums positions available positions available positions available
GREATER VANCOUVER, BC – General practitioners to join group of eight established locations with opportunities for family, walk-in or specialist physicians. Full-time, parttime or locums. We provide all the administrative and operational support. Send CVs to: Denning Health Group, 215-12975 84th Ave., Surrey, BCV3W1B3, fax to604-5925568. Telephone enquiries to Paul Foster, toll free, at 877592-5545or pfoster@denninghealth.ca. KELOWNA, BC – Come spend the summer in beautiful Kelowna, BC. Well established Family Practice / Walkin Clinic looking for locum for July and August. Flexible hours, convenient schedule, highly organized office with great associates and staff in the sunny Okanagan. Great recreational amenities, cultural activities and lifestyle opportunities. No OB, no call and no hospital work but available if desired. Contact Wendy at 250-764-8873, wendy.lakeshoremed@shawcable.com NANAIMO, BC– Edgewood, locatedinbeautiful Nanaimo, is an internationally renowned accredited and licensed facilityseekingageneral practitioner locumfromJuly1230. 2010. This is a unique offer providing an opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team in a residential addiction treatment setting. Flexible hours with no oncall requirements. A competitive remuneration as well as accommodation is included in this locum position.
Contact: Dr. Gary Richardson, email gary@edgewood.ca or tel 800-683-0111. NORTH BURNABY, BC – GPs/Locum – Physician operated, newly renovated 6-exam-room walk-in/appointment clinic located minutes fromVancouver at Brentwood Mall, ampleparking, skytrain/bustransportationhubinarapidly expanding high-density residential area. Ideal for GPs/ Locums with negotiable split. Flexible shifts 8am-9pm 7 days/week. Commencing1st August. Friendly, efficient staff in an ideal location Contact Mike: 604-754-8898 or email: brntwd99@gmail.com PRINCE RUPERT, BC – Prince Rupert is a beautiful coastal city and a great place to practice rewarding and fun medicine. Well established practice. Congenial colleagues with excellent specialist support. Practice has netted > $400000/year for thelast 2yearsafter 6- 8weeksvacation per year. May be eligible for $10,000 signingbonus andup to $15,000 relocation. ER essential and OB optional. EMR. Contact josephfnelson@yahoo.ca or veroniqueauger@ yahoo.ca or (250) 624-5171. SIDNEY, BC – Well-established family practice in office shared with one other female MD. Admitting privileges at Saanich Peninsula Hospital, no obstetrics or ER required. One in five weekend call. Great lifestyle in small seaside
townnear Victoria. Details at practiceinfo@shaw.ca VICTORIA, BC – Central downtown family practice (Cook/ Fort). Adjacent to many Medical Professional Buildings, withdiverse, disciplined, andloyal patient populationbase (mainly ethnic Chinese). Spacious functional clinic newly custombuilt (2003) withextensive cabinet storage spaces. Clinicfullyequipped, under 25%overhead, and2007billing 370K. Relocating2010. Email: huatau@hotmail.com ENGLEHART, ON – Two positions available to complete our complement of six. High-income salaried position as a member of our Family Health Team. One in six, Scott Sessional. No obstetrics. Eight weeks paid leave for vacation/CME. Generous hospital and under serviced area incentives including housing. Excellent schools, recreational facilities, organized activities in community. Telephone Lois Kozak, CEO, at: 705 544-2321; or e-mail: lakozak@edhospital.on.ca MONCTON, NB – Family practice seeking physician to take over well-established practice in a vibrant bilingual city. Enjoy a relaxed lifestyle with affordable housing. Practice offers in-patient hospital care with excellent specialist support, remuneration - salary with great benefits or fee for services. Email resumes to: jmacduff@nb.sympatico.ca
Classifieds: fax 604-681-8149 • tel 604-681-1811 • email classified@InPrintPublications.com
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CONSIDER CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE IN CALGARY, ALBERTA The Department of Critical Care Medicine is currently recruiting Clinical Associates for the Intensive Care Units at all adult sites within the Calgary Zone. We require clinical associates to provide service from 1700 to 0800 hours, seven days a week in the multisystem ICUs of the Region. Some day shifts are also available. Physicians will be integrated into the current physician healthcare team, including bedside physicians, residents and attending intensivists.
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As part of a specialized multidisciplinary team, the clinical associates’ role, in addition to patient care responsibilities in the unit, will be to provide tier one responses for all ICU Outreach Team calls within the institution. These teams were created as a patient safety initiative to advance the “ICU without walls” concept. Activation of the outreach team can occur by any concerned staff member or any unit of an acute care facility. The team is expected to rapidly assess and stabilize the patient, assist with communication, educate and support staff who have activated the team and assist with transferring the patient to the ICU when necessary (25 – 30% cases).
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- one-year contract (renewed annually) - ~13 shifts per month for 1.0 FTE (FTE of 0.25 to 1.0 available) - CME opportunities are encouraged and supported - partnershiped training with the Society of Critical Care Medicine (Fundamentals of Critical Care Support Course) - Crisis Resource Management training provided via high fidelity simulation (on-site) - additional support always available through function in the ICU team environment
Physicians must be eligible for College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta General Register, AHS Medical Staff Privileges, appropriate Canadian Medical Protective Association coverage, and ACLS certification.
LIFESTYLE Calgary is a growing city, approaching a population of 1,200,000 people and is located on the Bow River in Southern Alberta, Canada. This is an exciting, young and vibrant city, known for its proximity to the Rocky Mountains and world famous Banff National Park.
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APPLY TODAY Interested physicians should forward their CV with references, and address all inquiries to: Jeannie Shrout, Regional Manager Critical Care Medicine Alberta Health Services EG23B, 1403-29 St. N.W. Calgary, AB T2N 2T9 jeannie.shrout@albertahealthservices.ca
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REGINA, SK – Family physician required to join busy Quance East Medical Clinic in Regina, located in Victoria Square Mall. Full-time, part-time or locum basis. The clinicis well established. Regular andwalkin patients accepted. You can be as busy as you wish. Well-equipped, individual offices with Internet access, and pleasant and efficient staff. Excellent potential for building your practice. Contact: Lana Cheshenchuk at email suitlana@sasktel. net or call 306.545.5868
ABBOTSFORD, BC – Matching exam table and cupboard. Brown leather, brown wood look finish. Best offer takes both. Call Leslie at 604-703-8448.
ABBOTSFORD, BC– Family Practice for sale. Establishedpractice. Highincome. Excellent opportunity. Terms negotiable. Reply to westcoastfp@yahoo.com TORONTO, ON – Affluent Kingsway area establishedsolopractice. Termsnegotiable. Available by October 2010 in a self owned medical building with specialists and auxiliary services. Fiscal advantages of an eleven Family Health Practice call group. Infoat 416-233-1338.
NORTHVANCOUVER, BC- Office equipment inexcellent condition20-40%off catalogue price. For details call tel. 604-986-6716.
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vacation properties PROVENCE, FRANCE– Les Geraniums: three bedroom/threebathvilla.Terracewithpool andpanoramicviews.Walktomarket town. 1 hr. Aix andNice. Newindependent studio w/terrace also available. 604-522-5196. villavar@telus.net. TOFINO,BC– Partners wantedfor Beachfront vacation home on spectacular Chesterman Beach. 3 bedroom, 2 baths, fully equipped. Surfing, kayaking, beach combing, hiking, biking, fishing, whale watching and storm watching. Many top- class restaurants. 25% or 50%titledownershipavailablefor personal use or vacationrentals. This is not time-Share. Contact:zulubendall@hotmail.com
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Southern Georgian Bay Midland/Penetanguishene, Ontario Only 90 minutes north of Toronto.
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opportunities employment
Alberta
A great place to live...a great place to practice! General Practitioner & Family Medicine Positions Available Do you want to find the practice opportunity that is the right fit for you and your family? Whether you want to further your career in a beautiful rural community or a vibrant cosmopolitan city, Alberta is the place to be. Register with the Alberta Physician Link and you will receive:
an e-mail with the steps to become licensed in Alberta.
information about various practice opportunities with details about the community, clinic, hospital, compensation and more.
job alert e-mails when new opportunities become available in your specialty.
Practicing in New Brunswick is more than a career choice. It’s a life choice.
L’exercice d’une profession dans le secteur de la santé au Nouveau-Brunswick s’avère plus qu’un choix de carrière, c’est un mode de vie.
Being in New Brunswick. Making life happen.
Soyez au Nouveau-Brunswick Vivez pleinement.
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Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) in Etosha, Namibia’s largest game park. Africa.
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Sossus Dune Lodge, one of Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) newly renovated safari lodges.
Aerial view of desert landscape of north central Namibia. above Cloth crafts for sale on the street in Swakopmund, a popular tourist centre on the Namibia coast. right Burchell’s (Plains) Zebra (Equus Burchelli) in Etosha wild animal park.
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Desert tour vehicle climbs sand dunes at dusk outside Swakopmund, a popular tourist town on the coast of Namibia.
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A member of Namibia’s Himba tribe and the staff at Sossus Dune Lodge.
run a few steps and throw myself across a waxed slab of Formica, starting a screaming freefall down a huge sand dune in Africa. Sandboarding, on your stomach or feet, is huge in Namibia. You might come to this country, made famous by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, expecting the usual African experience… elephants, giraffes, lions, zebras. But it’s also the adventure capital of the continent, complete with crazy adrenaline-washed visitors sliding down sand dunes on snowboards, side-hilling on ATVs, trekking by camel, parasailing… Swakopmund, a seaport town midway up the coast of Namibia, is just above South Africa on Africa’s Atlantic coast. Our sandboard day starts on ATVs or quad-bikes, as they’re called here. It’s one thing to drive alongside sand dunes in a Jeep…quite another to surf down the middle of them on a quad through a sea of golden waves. At the base of a 180-metre dune, you pick up your “board”—construction-grade Formica, rough on one side, polished smooth with floor wax on the other—and trudge up to a knife-edge ridge. Up top, you flop across the board, making sure to curl the front end with your fingers so you don’t dig into the sand and bite it at 50 km/hour. If you’re chicken like me, you’ll also drag your toes. That not only keeps your speed down, it lets you actually control your direction. Sort of. The sand gets in EVERY thing. Yeah, you’ll be knocking it out of your clothing, shoes and body parts for days. And, yeah, it’s a raging rush. (Want proof? Check out youtube.com/watch?v=-TGlNnxgTUY.) We begin to realize Namibia is nothing like the rest of Africa. Originally, this wide expanse of desert, the size of Oklahoma and Texas combined, belonged to South Africa but won independence in 1990. It’s made up of sand, scrub, golden grass and mines that spit out everything from gold and diamonds to uranium. But above all, it’s part of the Namib, the oldest living desert on earth. Thirty years of German colonial history show up in the ornate architecture of Namibia’s few small towns where most of the country’s two million people live. And, while mining remains the top income producer, tourism is a close second. It didn’t hurt when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie decided this is where they wanted their baby Shiloh to be born. Still, the 250,000 yearly visitors are a fraction of the million Kenya gets in a good year. Our experience with the dunes continues at Sossusvlei to the south. The sand here is powder-fine bits of quartz and assorted other minerals that have migrated to the coast from the interior. The more the quartz May/June 2010 Just For Canadian Doctors
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travel the world has oxidized, the redder the sand becomes. And at Sossusvlei the sand is blood-red. At 5 am, the stars are brilliant, the Milky Way is a palpable presence seemingly inches above our heads and, off in the distance, is the wailing mew of jackals. In this early light, the dunes—100-km deep, 1,000-km long, 40-m high—are an incredible swirl of coloured patterns that outline sculpted lines of sand. At dawn, the light creeps up the sand, turning beige to vibrant salmon. An endless blanket of yellow grass glows and people atop the dunes cast pencil thin shadows in a montage of angles and lines. We’re staying at Sossus Dune Lodge, just minutes from the best dunes, where our host, Hilmar Tonnemacher of Abenteuer Afrika Safari, surprises us with daily sundown celebrations. “In Namibia, nature reaches out and touches you,” Hilmar says. One night we bounce down a desert track for 20 minutes before coming over a ridge to a sea of glittering lights that climb the sides of a narrow canyon. Hundreds of luminaria candles in paper bags light up dinner in a small courtyard ringed with reed fencing. He has a talent for arranging this sort of thing. His company hosted Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for 70 days. In fact, he threw this same dinner for them. From Swakopmund, we fly by private plane to Etosha, Namibia’s great wildlife reserve. Here’s where Namibia is locatedbelowthe you find the herds of elephants and giraffes silhouetted against a bloodEquator, just north of South Africa red setting sun, where jackals skulk on Africa’s Atlanticcoast. The best near waterholes, where rhino, buftime tovisit Namibia is duringits winter, May through November, when falo and herds of springbok wantemperatures are cooler andtrees are der past your camera’s viewfinder. And it’s where we find Okaukuejo less leafy, soyou can see the animals. Premier Waterhole Chalets, the largFor more on Namibia: swakop.com; est of Namibia Wildlife Resorts’ sanamibiatourism.com.na fari lodges. The NWR story is a bit of wonAbenteuer Afrika der. In 2005, Namibia safari lodges Safari has an assortment of customtours rangingfromtwoor three looked like holdovers from US budget motels of the 1960s. After nights toa week, coveringlodging, $17 million US worth of work, the foodandtransportation within the lodges are now something out of country. Abenteuer Afrika Safaris: the pages of a slick architectural abenteuerafrika.com magazine—simple but elegant deSouth African Airways cor with muted earth tones, beds covered in soft pillows, duvets and has daily flights fromNewYork white-gauze mosquito netting, andWashington, DC, nonstop marble floors, tasteful African art. toJohannesburg. South African We see giraffes amble across Airways: flysaa.com. Most visitors the horizon and springbok jump. overnight in Johannesburg, where And at a nearby waterhole, we the Westcliff, an Orient Express watch half-a-dozen jackals tear into the remains of a wild deer, tumbling Hotel, has rooms hugginga hillside over each other, snarling and havthat overlooks the city. Westcliff ing a tug-of-war with the ribs. Hotel: westcliff.co.za The “Premier Waterhole” title is authentic. The gathering at the resort’s waterhole, just yards from our chalet, is nothing less than amazing. The animals move in at sunset and by 7:30 pm there are 14 elephants, including half-a-dozen babies, along with a couple of rare black rhinos, halfa-dozen warthogs, and who knows what else in the tangle of legs, trunks and hooves. Eventually, a jackal wanders by, looking like someone’s scruffy lost dog. We’re told the bright spotlights keep the animals from seeing us but there’s no doubt that jackal knows we’re watching. He drinks and then looks us over and deliberately makes eye contact before nimbly leaping over the spike-topped rock wall to disappear into the darkness between our cabins. The jackal’s gone but we stay. We’re still out at midnight watching the parade come and go.
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Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) jumps in Etosha wildlife park. This peculiar form of jumping is called “pronking.” below Upscale “VIP” room at Okaukuejo, one of Namibia’s recently renovated game parks in Etosha game park.
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Sandboarding on sand dunes near Swakopmund, a coastal city halfway up Namibia’s Atlantic coast. Local teenagers climb a dune with their formica “boards.”
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In Namibia, nature reaches out and touches you Footprints frozen in cracked mud patterns in limestone of Dead Vlei, a salt pan left when a river dried up in Sossusvlei, left Elephants (Loxodonta africana) enjoying a waterhole in Etosha, Namibia’s largest wild animal park.
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the wine doctor dr. neil pollock Dr. Neil Pollock is a member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada; visit his website on wine at vinovancouver.com or send feedback to drneil@pollockclinics.com. He practises no-scalpel, no-needle vasectomy and infant circumcision.
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hen I moved to Vancouver in my late 20s, Yaletown was just establishing itself as the social and trendy bar and restaurant epicentre of the city. My friend owned and operated a restaurant that epitomized the Yaletown Saturday night scene. His restaurant-bar was filled with loud hip music, young, beautiful, well-dressed people, including a professional athlete or two, and many well-known personalities who were regulars. It was the place to be (until it went bust when all these people floated over to the next great place to hang out and be seen in). But, until the party was over, every Saturday night my friend dined in his restaurant with the most incredible company at his table. Now, I am not referring to the occasional times I saw Michael Jordan, Robert DeNiro or Pamela Anderson with him. I’m speaking about the regularity of his dining with a character of international flare— flamboyant, powerful, and dense (in a positive way). He was never without the company of a bottle of Tignanello, the Super Tuscan, at his table. One Saturday he invited me to the table and poured me a glass. I had just started to study wine, but I clearly recall the details of that bottle of Tignanello and its nose of dark fruit and spice. Layers of flavour unfolded on my palate, beginning with black cherries, liquorice and tar. It had an incredible complexity that continued through the long silky smooth finish. It had class, elegance and opulence.
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Tignanello is just one of many wellknown Super Tuscans. Unfortunately, you can expect to pay upwards of $60 to many hundreds of dollars for a bottle, depending on the Super Tuscan and vintage you’re after. Tignanello by Antinori is primarily Sangiovese (80%) with Cabernet (usually 20%), and sometimes a small amount of Cabernet Franc. Other well-known Super Tuscans include Sassicaia by Tenuta San Guido, is a Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc blend. Ornellaia by Tenuta dell’Ornellaia is a Cabernet Merlot and Cabernet Franc LaStella Wineries’ blend, as is Solaia by VivacePinot Antinori. Grigio—a Interestingly the perfect match wines of the Super withtuna Tuscans group have tataki salad. become some of the best-known and most-sought wines from Italy. After World War II, inexpensive and easy-to-drink Chianti wines became popular, but then grew increasingly disappointing, partly due to the Chianti formula of adding white Malvasia grapes to make the young wine more drinkable. Unfortunately, the more popular Chianti got, the more it was lightened with white grapes, turning it into a thin red wine— acidic, hollow and poorly balanced. In the 70s, a group of innovative and quality-minded producers, fearing the tarnish of their reputation, decided to depart from the traditional blending laws. Doing so meant that their fine wines would be classified at the lowest quality classification (Vino da Tavola) instead of the higher DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata) and highest DOCG (Denominazione di Origine
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Controllata e Garantita). Nevertheless, Piero Antinori, whose family had been making wines for over 600 years, pushed ahead with the creation of Tignanello. This inspired other winemakers to follow, eliminating white grapes from the Chianti blend and adding Bordeaux varietals (mainly Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot) to the Sangiovese base. After some time and lobbying, the new designation IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) was created to bring Super Tuscans back into the regulatory fold (and out of the Vino da Tavola category that marked them as inferior). My interest in the Super Tuscan was reignited at a recent dinner party and wine tasting, hosted by the owners of Le Vieux Pin and LaStella Wineries. The exquisite dinner prepared by Vancouver’s Coast Restaurant (see Just for Canadian Doctors Winter 2010 issue for more on Coast Restaurant) was an extraordinary pairing of some of the finest food and wine. A sample: the 2007 LaStella Fortissimo ($35) paired with wild mushroom gnocchi. Fortissimo is a forceful musical note, LaStella’s Super-Tuscan-inspired blend, that’s true to its name. This powerhouse wine has a pronounced nose of mocha, Black Forest cake, scorched earth and grilled herbs; the palate entry is bold with a firm mid palate and a gripping finish. Another inspired food-and-wine pairing: flavourful tuna tataki salad with the 2008 LaStella Vivace Pinot Grigio ($25). The Vivace refers to a playful, joyful musical note. And this wine is full of spunk. It’s a true Grigio, light-gold colour with aromas of lemon, pear and apple, finishing with a trace of mint. Organically grown and harvested in a cooler climate in BC, the palate exhibits pear, perfume and mineral tones; it’s well balanced with a fresh, crisp finish. Let the dinner table showcase how food and wine can create a sum greater than its parts. Whether at the latest hot spot, like Coast, or hosting your own party at home, add a bold and multi-faceted character to your dinner table. Rest assured you will always be dining in great company with any of the above wines at your table.
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It’s a Cabernet, it’s Sangiovese, no, it’s a S...U...P...E...R... Tuscan!
t h e f o o d d o c t o r d r . h o l ly f o n g Dr. Holly Fong is a practising speech-language pathologist with three young children who is always trying, adapting and creating dishes.
grind it! It’s easy to make a better burger at home southwest burger (serves 4)
1 kg chuck roast or well-marbled sirloin, cut into 1-inch chunks ½ white onion, peeled and coarsely chopped 1 large clove of garlic, peeled, finely minced or grated 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro salt and pepper to taste
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4 buns or rolls, split and toasted 4 leaves of romaine or leafy green lettuce, washed 4 slices of tomato 1 ripe avocado juice of ¼ lemon juice of ½ lime 7 tablespoons salsa 1 teaspoon chopped cilantro
Preheat a gas grill. Put meat, onionandgarlicina food processor, inbatches if necessary, andpulse until just ground. Don’t over-process. Remove any obvious gristleor membranes. Put ina bowl andsprinklewithabout a teaspoon of salt andpepper. Addmoreseasoningif necessary(cook a teaspoonof meat ina panto taste). Shapeinto4or morepatties of nomore than6 ounces (171 grams), handlingmeat as littleas possibletoavoidcompressingit. Cut avocadoinhalf. Pushtheheel of the knifebladeintothepit andtwist toremove. Peel avocadoandcut intoslices. Toss ina bowl withlemonjuicetoprevent browning. Combinethesalsa, limejuiceand choppedcilantroina small bowl. Mix well. Scrubthegrill rack witha wirebrush. The grill is sufficiently hot whenyoucanbarely holdyour hand3 – 4 inches over therack for a fewseconds. Grill burgers about 3 minutes a sidefor rare, andanother minutea sidefor eachincreasingstageof doneness, but no morethan10 minutes total—unless youlike eatinghockey pucks. Serveontoastedbunor hardrolls, garnishedwithsalsa, lettuce, tomatoand avocado.
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here’s something Dr. Fong’s better burger, primitive about Southwest eating grilled style, with meat with one’s hands avocado, that appeals equally to cillantroand young and old. But most salsa. burgers these days are nothing more than a thin piece of flavourless overcooked meat slathered with ketchup, mustard and relish to make it palatable. When you buy packaged ground meat or frozen patties, the meat must be well cooked because of the high risk of bacterial contaminagrated garlic to tion associated with massive batches of ground my basic ground-meat mixture. meat. Moreover, the meat used in its production From there, I add parsley and oregano if I want is questionable as it comes from hundreds of an Italian burger or allspice and cinnamon for animals and often from various facilities. a Middle Eastern burger or cilantro, soya sauce Making a really good hamburger is not and chili powder for a Southeastern version. that difficult if you grind your own meat. Make up your own variations. And, because you know the quality and fat When garnishing content of the meat, you your burger, don’t drown can cook your burger There’s something it in sauces. Use the old medium-rare for the standards of ketchup, primitive about best flavour. mustard, and relish, but Grinding may sound eating grilled meat try salsa, steak sauce or time consuming, but horseradish for a change. with one’s hands all it takes is a couple Add vegetables like of minutes with a food that appeals equally lettuce, tomato, onion processor. If you want and cool cucumber. Or to young and old to make some ground try fruit: avocado, mango, meat for the freezer, peaches or pineapple. use a nice piece of Since hamburger is a cousin to steak, chuck roast with some fat. If you’re in a hurry, you can enjoy your burger with a beer or red use a couple of pieces of well-marbled sirloin wine. If you don’t have too much heat from steaks. The key for best flavour is quality meat chilies, a medium-bodied wine with some with some fat content. Chuck and sirloin have fruit and spiciness that is well balanced by 15 – 20% fat, which is still lean by fast-food acid and tannins will bring out the burger’s standards. flavours. Recently, I tried a Cote de Rhone style Cut the meat into one-inch cubes and wine from California that was excellent with a pulse with the steel blade of the processor Southwestern style burger. The Frontier Red, Lot until just chopped. Do not over-process (when 81 Anniversary edition produced by Fess Parker you grind meat finely, it packs together to (yes, TV’s Davey Crockett) had a long peppery make a tough burger). Grind in batches if you finish with just enough blackberry and cherry have a smaller machine. If you want to freeze fruit to not be overpowering. Made from a the meat, do not season, let meat cool in the blend of Bordeaux and Cote du Rhone varietals, fridge, and seal in thick freezer bags to limit this wine had aromas suggestive of smoke and freezer burn. spice with a little vanilla. Seasoning may be as simple as salt and pepper. I usually add chopped onion and May/June 2010 Just For Canadian Doctors
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t he w e a lt hy doctor manf r ed pu r tz ki, c .a. Manfred Purtzki is the principal of Purtzki & Associates Chartered Accountants. You can reach him at manfred@purtzki.com.
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have received many inquiries from readers all over Canada interested in setting up a private health plan, thereby making their personal medical expenses a corporate tax deduction. By using The Private Health Services Plan (“PHSP”), your medical corporation can deduct dental and medical bills incurred by you, your family, and other employees of your practice. The payments on behalf of your employees are not subject to income tax withholding, CPP or EI, and is equivalent to getting a 40% discount on medical expenses. Compared to self-employed doctors, the tax treatment for medical corporations utilizing a PHSP is much more beneficial. For instance, the Income Tax Act does not place a limit on the amount deducted within the corporation, while unincorporated doctors do not have such a free rein. For these doctors, a maximum allowable annual deduction of $1,500 for themselves,
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spouses and dependents aged 18 or more, plus $750 per child under the age of 18, can prove to be restrictive. To illustrate, if a doctor employs his spouse and has two minor children, then the total maximum deductible expense would be $4,500 per year. Another advantage afforded by the medical corporation is that the “do-ityourself” medical plan is only available to incorporated doctors, and you can save the third-party administration fee by administering your own PHSP. Setting up your own plan involves the following steps.
1 Execute a director’s resolution to legally set up the PHSP.
2 Prepare a written employment agreement between the company and its employees outlining the eligibility requirements, including the maximum annual benefit for each employee.
3 Set up the bookkeeping records so that you can track the amount of medical expenses paid on behalf of each employee. The paperwork is straightforward and I can send you an information package containing sample documentation. (Send a message to feedback@inprintpublications. com if you’re interested in receiving the package via email.) Here are some points to bear in mind if you are considering a PHSP.
> To be eligible as a PHSP expense, the payments must qualify as medical expenses as defined in the Income Tax Act. Note that in the latest federal budget, expenses incurred after March 4, 2010 for purely cosmetic procedures (including related services and other expenses such as travel) are no longer eligible. “Purely cosmetic” generally includes surgical or nonsurgical procedures solely aimed at enhancing
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one’s appearance, such as liposuction, hair replacement procedures, Botox injections, and teeth whitening.
> Assume you and your spouse are both employees and shareholders of the corporation, and under the PHSP your corporation reimburses you for medical expenses. In order to pass muster with CRA, you have to prove that the benefits were “employee benefits” and not benefits as a result of your ownership of the corporation. If CRA is successful in proving that you received the medical reimbursements paid by the company in your capacity as a shareholder, a penalty in the form of double taxation will result. CRA will deny the deduction of the medical expense, but at the same time, will tax you on the benefit you received as a result of the reimbursement. In order to mitigate the exposure to this kind of shareholder benefit assessment, you need to demonstrate that the PHSP coverage extends to all employees of the corporation. The key aspect is that participating in the PHSP is available to all employees, not necessarily that the employees are actually using the PHSP.
> Trading salary for PHSP benefits is not permitted. If the employee agrees to reduce her salary for a tax-free PHSP payment, then the PHSP will be considered a taxable benefit. On the other hand, it is acceptable for you to provide the staff with a PHSP benefit in lieu of a salary increase or a bonus, and this results in a tax-free PHSP payment. I believe that one of the greatest tax benefits associated with incorporating your practice is that you can set up and administer your own health plan. Imagine being able to write off all manner of medical expenses, even including the cost of orthodontic treatment for your children, without triggering a taxable benefit.
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This pediatric physician loves to travel. As she puts it, “My work at Children’s Hospital can be quite stressful—but most physicians have to deal with some stress. For me, I enjoy getting away and seeing the world. I am able to leave the pager at home—they usually can’t reach me in Africa or India.” And, while de-stressing it also puts life in perspective.
I live and practise in: Vancouver , BC My training: I graduated from UBC and completed my internship in San Diego California. Following this I worked as a General Practitioner in Lloydminster, AB. I travelled to York England for some Pediatric experience and did most of my Pediatric Residency at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Photos from Dr. Hlady’s travels: Cappadocia, Turkey; the doctor by prayer flags in Bhutan; the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; and in Chitzen Itza. from top
Why I was drawn to medicine: I did not think I would ever get accepted into Medical School so I hadn’t considered it seriously. When I entered Medicine I always liked the children. While they often became ill very quickly they also would usually improve just as fast. That was gratifying to see. My last trip: The Chitwan jungle in Nepal and the Magical Kingdom of Bhutan The most exotic place I’ve travelled: Myanmar—The Mandalay and Bagan areas were very exotic The best souvenir I’ve brought back from a trip: A comb made by the indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest A favourite place that I keep returning to: Actually I do not usually go back to any place twice—It has to be a very special place. However one place I have visited twice is the Cinque Terre area of Northern Italy. Wonderful scenery. My ultimate dream vacation: To see the majestic continent of Antarctica.. I would love to see the huge icebergs and all those penguins. If I could travel to any time, I’d go to: Perhaps the
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Roaring 20s My favourite movie: This year I loved the movie Up My must-see TV show: I actually don’t watch much TV but I am a news addict I am embarrassed to say. My favourite music: The soundtrack from Les Miserables My first job: I was a cook in the kitchen at the Banff Springs Hotel The gadget or gear I could not do without: My iPod to listen to on long flights My favourite room at home: The large balcony where I can sit and watch the sunsets over the Pacific Ocean. My last purchase: A limited edition Olympic Panasonic Digital camera My last splurge: A last-minute trip to the Mayan Riviera Most-frequented store: A store called Wanderlust which has great travel accessories My closet has too many: Shoes My fridge is always stocked with: Great white wine My medicine cabinet is always stocked with: Antibiotics to take on my next exotic trip My guilty pleasure is: Spa treatments to relieve stress My favourite exercise/ activity: Long walks around Stanley Park My favourite sport to watch: Figure skating— especially the pairs My secret to relaxing and relieving tension: I don’t really have one—but music, exercise and spa treatments work for me. A talent I wish I had: To be a good cook My scariest moment: I have had two actually. The worst was being in a 5.3 magnitude earthquake in the
middle of the night in Costa Rica. I was afraid I would die. On another occasion I was surrounded by about 50 hungry aggressive sheep in the Yorkshire moors. They stampeded towards me when I started to eat some dried fruit—thinking I was about to feed them! My fondest memory: Sitting in front of the Taj Mahal was an experience I will never forget. I also loved the exotic spa where we spent the day overlooking the Dead Sea in Jordan—the whirlpools were awesome. Another memorable experience was while I was on safari in South Africa, standing up in the jeep and seeing wildlife all around as far as the eye could see. Unbelievable. A big challenge I’ve faced: Finding time to get enough sleep One thing I’d change about myself: I would like to have perfect vision so I could easily see when snorkeling and swimming The word that best describes me: I was born in the year of the Ox—that describes me—plodding and stubborn I’m inspired by: People who do great things and stay humble I’m happiest when: I am walking outside by the ocean on a sunny day My greatest fear is: Being incapacitated by a stroke My motto is: Slow and steady wins the race A cause that’s close to my heart: Animal welfare causes—such as people who advocate for the humane transportation of animals Something I haven’t done yet that’s on my must-do list: Visit the Arctic and the Antarctic If I wasn’t a doctor I’d be: Perhaps a geneticist or a biology teacher—difficult to say.
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My name: Dr. Jean Hlady
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