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Editor Barb Sligl Art Direction BSS Creative
Contributing Editor Janet Gyenes
Editorial Assistant Adam Flint
Contributors Michael DeFreitas Dr. Holly Fong Dr. Chris Pengilly Manfred Purtzki Dr. Kelly Silverthorn Roberta Staley Cover photo B. Sligl Senior Account Executive Monique Nguyen Account Executives Wing-Yee Kwong Lily Yu Sales, Classifieds and Advertising In Print Circulation Office 200 – 896 Cambie St. Vancouver, BC V6B 2P6 Canada Phone: 604-681-1811 Fax: 604-681-0456 Email: info@AdvertisingInPrint.com
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15 get physical in the United Kingdom 23 on the trail in Nova Scotia
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8 photo prescription
5 spring mix
Colour your world
10 pay it forward Dr. Lee helps patients breathe easier in Africa
12 the thirsty doctor
Trending tipples
13 the hungry doctor
Easter dinner in a bowl
18 motoring
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Cars + coffee in Cali
33 the wealthy doctor
Printed in Canada.
Trust in the trust fund
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34 doctor on a soapbox Cursive writing—gone for good?
27 CME calendar 35 employment opportunities 37 sudoku 38 small talk with Dr. Pippa Moss cover photo
London calling! Start your UK adventure— from jumping off cliffs to spinning around a velodrome— by catching a ride at the revamped King’s Cross Station, an architectural wonder. Story on page 15.
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a new leaf
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t’s getting warmer, and that means turning over a new leaf, so to speak. Leaves and blooms are coming out and, after being inside much of winter, so are we. And there’s no better place to stretch limbs this spring or summer than in the UK (page 15). Not just crumpets and culture, the United Kingdom has an adventurous side. Big time. London’s 2012 Summer Olympic Games left a wealth of athletic venues to discover. Wales is making “coasteering” the new must-try experience (jump off a cliff into the Irish Sea in the morning, then tour ancient castles and cozy pubs in the afternoon). And Glasgow’s bravado (Glaswegian kiss, anyone?) is being channelled into the upcoming Commonwealth Games this summer. Oh, and there’s whiskey too, of course (page 27). Here, at home, there’s an east-coast road trip in Nova Scotia (page 23). Or go east (and
west!) in Mexico (page 5). It’s all about the great outdoors. Get outside and physical! And starting this issue, we’re running a new “As Seen In” contest. While reading these pages look for the answer to this question: What is the name of the trail in the Nova Scotia road trip story in the Spring 2014 issue? Then scan the QR code above. Or visit justforcanadiandoctors.com/AsSeenIn.html to complete an entry form. Answer the “As Seen In” question correctly and you could win a $495 credit from the Professional Education Society to a CME program of your choice. Good luck! We also want to congratulate our photography columnist, Michael DeFreitas (page 8) for winning gold at the 2014 North American Travel Journalists Association’s annual awards competition—for a stunning portrait photo in our Spring 2013 issue (above). Bravo! feedback@InPrintPublications.com
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what/when/where > spring
style | food | shows | festivals | places | getaways | gear…
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spring break!
Go s [ outh]
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ola Cabo!
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This is the tip of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico, where, yes, you can relive some spring-break revelry, BUT it’s also replete with seriously stunning vistas, where two seas meet. On the calmer Sea of Cortez side is Lovers Beach or Playa del Amor and on the wild Pacific side is Divorce Beach (pictured; with a ghostly apparition in the rocks overlooking the sands)… Watch waves crash and marvel at brave skimboarders, then head back to El Médano (Spanish for sand dune) Beach, where the posh ME Cabo resort awaits, whether you’re hitched or not… see page 6.
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Both have the beach, sun, great fare and swish resorts. It’s all about the vibe you’re after. —B.S.
getaway playa del carmen is on Mexico’s sometimes over-run and -touristy Caribbean coast, where the Riviera Maya is a long string of all-inclusive resorts. Advantage: there’s plenty to choose from. And there’s plenty of off-the-beach activities, from discovering underground cenotes to a traditional Mexican show. The island of Cozumel is also a short ferry ride away. The east remains the standby.
Cabo san Lucas is the getaway of the LA and Hollywood jet-set. George Clooney has a pad here, and Sammy Hagar of Van Halen fame has a tequila operation. Think glam. But this is also where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacificat the tip of the Baja Peninsula for some fantastical scenery (above)—surreal enough for The Planet of the Apes to have been filmed here. It’s simply wild here. Go west. Cabo’s westcoast vibe is a bit of rock-androll with a good dose of glitz. ME Cabo resort has even set up a poolside day bed for Adam Sandler’s dog. Inside, there’s the swanky Suite ME or Personality Suites.
It may just be the best stretch of white sand along the Playa del Carmen coast (above). Lounge poolside with a cerveza or shoreside by the oh-soblue Caribbean, then stroll down the beach to Quinta Avenida (5th Ave.). Catch Xcaret’s fab night show (xcaret. com)—including a traditional Mayan ball game and serious rope-handling by a vaquero Mexicano. And you can stay right next door at the Occidental Grand Xcaret (occidentalhotels.com/ resort/occidental-grand-xcaret). Food at an all-inclusive can include haute, authentic Mexican fare, like the muy buena stuffed pepper at Royal Hideaway Playacar’s Spices Restaurant.
beach x2
Spa it. ME Cabo’s YHI Spa (named for the Goddess of Light) is a sanctuary set in the centre of the hotel, complete with a temazcal (traditional Mexican steam house). Indulge in a treatment or lounge in the courtyard in between the plunge pools on the hydrotherapy circuit. Bliss.
A short ferry ride from Playa del Carmen is Isla Cozumel and some of the best snorkelling anywhere. Take a tour to Palancar Reef from Occidental Grand Cozumel (occidentalhotels.com/ resort/occidental-grand-cozumel).
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EASTERN PROMISE On the Caribbean side, stay at Occidental’s Royal Hideaway Playacar. It’s the poshest of Occidental’s trio of resorts here. Think Leading Hotels of the World… > occidentalhotels.com/ resort/royal-hideaway-playacar
WESTERN FRONT Make your Cabo base on El Médano Beach at ME Cabo, which has Hollywood glam and stellar views of the rock formations that culminate in the signature arch, El Arco. > melia. com/en/hotels/mexico/los-cabos/me-cabo
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Yes, ME Cabo has what’s become one of the hippest places in Cabo—day or night—the club vibe of Nikki Beach (nikkibeachcabo.com)—but the town of Cabo San Lucas is a short walk away, with authentic Mexican art to peruse in the market (below) and yummy local fare, like made-in-front-of-you tortillas. ¡Buen provecho!
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sipping, roadtripping
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spring fever
gear/
goodies
smooth sipper
hot trend!
Forget vodka; dark is in. See “The Thirsty Doctor” on page 12.
1 edgy aesthetic Rutilated quartz paired with pave diamonds is definitely a departure from the matches you might expect, but this bling ring is both striking and sophisticated. That “classic with an edge” aesthetic is exactly what the “sisterpreneurs” behind Vancouver’s OhKuol intended when creating their collection. Well-priced finds include sparkly yet rustic druzy earrings, chunky gemstone bangles and other statement-making pieces. $185, OhKuol, etsy.com/ca/shop/OhKuol
editor’s must-have: be smart, drink up
2 canadian royalty Loyal royal followers probably already know that another “heir” is creating a buzz. No, not Prince George, but rather, Crown Royal XO. The amber-hued spirit is a blend of more than 50 of the beloved brand’s best whiskies. It’s finished in cognac casks made from French oak, which imparts vanilla notes, spice and dried fruit. $49.99, crownroyal.ca
4 DRINK SMART It’s hardly a stretch to say that our water bottles have become constant companions that travel with us from the office to yoga and beyond. But unlike many water bottles, BluFit brings more to the relationship than its streamlined good looks: it’s smart. A sensor built into the bottle syncs with your smartphone and alerts you when it’s time for you to rehydrate (the integrated app allows for customization). BluFit won’t speak to you like Samantha, the enhanced operating system in the movie Her, but that doesn’t mean you won’t fall in love with this smart innovation. $59, blufitbottle.com
3 on the road It might be tempting to make a beeline between Mount Rushmore and Deadwood City, but curious types may wonder what diamond in the rough is hidden over yonder. The new Roadtrippers app will make sure you don’t miss the detour for Star Wars’ starship troopers filming location in the Hell’s Half Acre scarp, Wyoming, or the alien meeting place in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (It’s actually the iconic Devil’s Tower in Wyoming.) Not a sci-fi fan? The Route 66 Bars scenic drive or Vermont’s Route 7, with a stop at Abe Lincoln’s home, might be more your speed. Free, iTunes.com
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road warrior
Itchy feet? A taste for trying something new? We’ve got you covered whether you stay close to home or head for the road less travelled Written + produced by Janet Gyenes
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p h o t o p r e s c r i p t i o n m i c h a e l d e f r e i ta s Michael DeFreitas is an award-winning photographer who’s been published in a wide variety of travel publications. With his initials, MD, he’s been nicknamed “doc,” making his photography prescriptions apropos.
colour your world
Send your photos and questions to our photography guru at feedback@ inprintpublications.com and your shot may be featured in a future issue!
How to use colour to get the most photographic impact
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n a chilly July morning I waited to board a helicopter for a heli-hike in the Alaska Range outside Denali National Park. When our guide showed up wearing a dark blue ski jacket I explained I’d be photographing him for a magazine article and asked if he had a brighter coloured jacket. He nodded and disappeared inside the cabin. I wanted a colour that would stand out against the neutral earth tones of the mountains. He came back wearing a bright red rescue jacket. Perfect. Later that morning I photographed him standing on the edge of a cliff overhang, about 1,000 metres above the Nenana River valley. His bright red jacket made the shot. There’s a big difference between general colour photos and using certain colour techniques to produce more dramatic images. Had I shot my guide in his dark blue jacket I would have ended up with an ordinary colour image. Today, thousands of mediocre colour travel images fill most digital and print media, fostering a sort of colour photography complacency. For our travel photography to stand out in this ho-hum crowd of colour we really need to pay closer attention to how we can use colour to affect the final image. As with texture, form and shape, colour is an important compositional element. How we use it can make the difference between average and wow. I used the colour technique of contrasts for my Alaska guide. The muted landscape hues helped isolate the guide’s red jacket, which in turn draws the viewer’s eyes to his precarious perch at the edge of the cliff. Yellow would have worked too, but red is associated with danger and I wanted to portray a feeling of danger and adventure.
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PRO TIPS for wow colour Shoot with a dominant prime colour (red, yellow, blue), like the example of the jellyfish. Use colours to evoke emotions. Blue is cool and relaxing. Green feels fresh and vibrant. Red connotes anger or danger. Placing a brightly coloured
subject in front of a neutral background accentuates the colour. Shooting a blue car against a neutral blue sky doesn’t work as well as shooting a red car. Transitions between two or more colours (like rows of
yellow and red tulips) also produce strong images. gear up Reflections can mute the saturated colours of shiny objects, green leaves, sky and water, so use a polarizing filter to reduce those reflections and get deeper, more vivid colours.
Linear polarizers work with manual focus lenses; circular polarizers with auto-focus lenses. An outer ring rotates to desired polarization. And because any filter reduces the sharpness of a lens, buy the best filter you can afford.
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Colourific! Contrast is good. So are prime colours. Muted landscape hues of greens and browns need a pop of red or yellow. A bright-red jacket brings drama to a standard mountain shot. And the gorgeous ochre jellyfish is extra striking when captured alone against the deep-blue waters of an aquarium.
I used the same technique—for a completely different effect—while shooting tulips in the Skagit Valley in Washington State. Each April, colourful blooms blanket the fields around the small town of La Conner. After shooting the fields from different angles I searched for more unusual subjects within the clouds of colour. It took a bit of looking, but I finally found a lone yellow daffodil in a field of dark-red tulips, and a red tulip smothered by yellow ones. The contrasting colour of both prime-coloured subjects created the theme of being different, nonconforming, standing out in the crowd, a loner or a rebel. However, to use colours effectively you need to understand a few subtle facts. The colour wheel (below) helps explain the relationship between colours. Using a combination of adjacent colours will produce a calming or mellow feeling, while combining colours on opposite sides of the wheel will produce a photo with high colour contrast and conflict—like the vibrant ochre of a sea nettle jellyfish against the deep blue waters of the Monterey Aquarium in California. Colours on the right (reddish side) are “warm” while those on the left (blueish side) are classified as “cold.” Knowing these colour traits allows you to produce images with different emotions. Using colour can bring a new dimension to your travel photography. Don’t just shoot colourful scenes. Seek out the scenes within a scene. Flood your photos with colour and look for colours within colours.
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Roberta Staley is an award-winning magazine editor and writer with experience reporting from the developing world and conflict and post-conflict zones. Staley specializes in medical and science reporting and is a magazine instructor at Douglas College and Simon Fraser University.
birthing hope
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ust 26 years of age, the mother of newborn twins lay on her side on a bed in the delivery ward of the Shinyanga Regional Hospital in the east African nation of Tanzania. There was none of the joy and exuberance that accompanies births in Canada, with excited visits from family members bearing gifts of flowers and champagne and pink or blue helium balloons. Toronto’s Dr. Kyong-Soon Lee directed the nurses to place the infants by the mom in the classic ‘kangaroo care’ position to provide skin-to-skin contact,
Dr. Kyong-Soon Lee uses a neonatal mannequin to demonstrate to Tanzania birth ensuring the attendants how to newborns stayed apply a simple bagmask resuscitator on warm and content. a newborn. But the woman, thin,
malnourished and exhausted, refused to snuggle her babies. Little wonder, says Lee, it was the young mom’s 12th delivery. Lee, a neonatologist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, was in Tanzania twice last year on two-week missions as part of a pilot project to address the sub-Saharan nation’s high infant mortality rate, which is 45 deaths per 1,000 live births. (In comparison, Canada’s infant mortality rate is five deaths per 1,000 births.) Reducing child mortality is one of the eight key pillars of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, a blueprint supported
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by the world’s nations to improve the living conditions of the poor. To address child mortality, the Tanzanian government reached out to Canada for help and advice. The result was a partnership between Lee and SickKids’ Global Child Health department, which works to improve the health of children around the world through education, advocacy and capacity building. The three-way collaboration included the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Canadian chapter of AMREF, the African Medical & Research Foundation, which is Africa’s leading health development organization. Lee’s career has focused on the care of newborn infants. A graduate of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, Lee did a pediatric residency at SickKids, followed by advanced training in neonatology, which is a newborn intensive care subspecialty. This was complemented with a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology. Lee’s extensive research has convinced her of several key things: the tried-and-true basics of newborn care work best not only in the developing world but here in the West, and this is the best message to communicate to hospitals, midwives and rural clinics in places like subSaharan Africa. Lee, who was accompanied to Tanzania by SickKids nurse practitioner Judy Hawes, didn’t provide direct neonatal care during her time in Africa. Instead, she helped expand and refine the skills and knowledge of local doctors, midwives and nurses currently responsible for the birth and postnatal management of babies. While the Shinyanga hospital had such newborn care technology as ventilators, no one really knew how to operate them effectively, so
Lee emphasized fundamental newborn care skills. In Africa, similar to the West, most babies will only require what is referred to as Level 1 or Level 2 care. (Level 4 care, which offers advanced care like infant cardiac surgery, is usually only seen in resource-rich nations like Canada.) The lower levels of care include resuscitation during the first few minutes after birth, and promoting skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding. Lee introduced the Tanzanians to a low-tech bag-mask ventilator that is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The apparatus covers the infant’s mouth and nose and is hooked up to a bag system that breathes for the baby. Generally, most newborns start taking breaths on their own when their back is rubbed. About 10% require a bit more assistance. Although the bag-mask ventilator is simple, it requires training and practice. “Most students found it quite challenging and need ongoing practice,” says Lee, whose pupils, many rural midwives, ranged in age from their 20s to mid-50s. Lee also oversaw training in other key areas such as umbilical cord and eye care to prevent infection. The Tanzanians were “really looking for anything to help them; they recognize that neonatal mortality is a huge problem and were willing to do anything within their resources to improve outcomes. They were very open and asked lots of questions,” says Lee. One of the students told Lee that, “due to this training, mothers in the Shinyanga district will enjoy their newborns despite poor hope and threats of delivery. I will save many babies in my region.” To complement the training, the students were given new bag-mask ventilators and neonatal mannequins to take back to their local districts to train other birthing attendants and for use at deliveries. Lee isn’t sure what the future is for the program, or whether she’ll be returning to Africa to train more birth attendants. But the journey has changed her, and made her realize the beauty of the continent and the enormous potential its people have—so long as experts like her from the West reach out to lend a helping hand.
AMREF Canada
A doctor at University of Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital helps newborns breathe
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FOUR EVENTS ONE VENUE
WSPOS
XXXII Congress of the ESCRS
14th EURETINA Congress
5th EuCornea Congress
WSPOS Paediatric Sub Specialty Day
13-17 September www.escrs.org
11-14 September www.euretina.org
12-13 September www.eucornea.org
12 September www.wspos.org
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the thirsty doctor janet gyenes Janet Gyenes is a magazine writer and editor who likes to dally in spirits, especially when discovering something like corenwyn jenever (a gin-like Dutch spirit)—straight or in cocktails like the “bramble.” Have a boozy idea or question? Send it to feedback@inprintpublications.com
what to drink now
We asked those who know a thing or two about booze to weigh in on what’s hot—or not
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ustin Timberlake and Sean “Diddy” Combs are competing again, but not for a Grammy. Instead, the impresarios are squaring off in the premium tequila arena, each having partnered with big names Sauza Tequila and DeLeon, respectively. Seems everyone wants to get creative with and put their stamp on booze. Molecular gastronomy (think dry ice “smoke” and foams) is here to stay, according to David Rios, Diageo’s reigning “best bartender in the world.” Tell that to the food scientists at Jelly Belly Candy Company, who just launched a draft beer-flavoured bean they spent three years perfecting, inspired by a hefeweizen ale with a “clean, crisp and wheaty taste.” (Perhaps the non-alcoholic candy will be skewered to garnish a Michelada cocktail.) On the subject of flavour, don’t expect boozes to go au naturel, either. Last year, a record 50-plus flavoured products were launched, although the flavoured-vodka category contracted. Do these trends have staying power or will they fade faster than a Snapchat post? We
2014 booze trends hot list
from Left Amaro Nonino Quintessentia®, a bittersweet Italian digestif; Antica Formula red vermouth; Sombra mezcal
Artisanal or bespoke vermouth, amaro, mezcal, rum Low-alcohol or “inverse” cocktails, session beers Molecular gastronomy behind the bar
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tapped three experts—from Toronto, Halifax and Vancouver—to opine (and whine a little) about booze trends for the year ahead. Wendy McGuinness (bar manager at Chambar restaurant in Vancouver) takes her craft seriously and urges a quick death to the flavoured-vodka trend. “When people are drinking popcorn and bubblegum vodka sodas we, as a community, need to take a stand and stop the madness.” That’s not to say that McGuinness is a buzzkill when it comes to mixing things up, whether in a barrel or glass. McGuinness hopes to see more cocktails made with the smokier agave spirit: mezcal. “I have barrel-aged the Los Siete Misterios for three months and the results were unreal. There are amazing flavours waiting to be discovered and I think more people are excited for aromas of cooked agave, smoke, rose petal and peppercorn.” Another trend we can look forward to, says Jenner Cormier (Halifax-based reserve spirit consultant and world-class ambassador for Diageo Canada Inc.), is low-octane or inverse cocktails. Take the classic martini, for instance, which has a two-to-one ratio of gin to dry vermouth. Simply reverse the ratio to make an inverse cocktail. Some bartenders say that these changeups make for more aromatic cocktails since complex floral and herbal notes can come to the fore. Either way, less booze means you can imbibe longer without worrying about being getting smashed after a couple. The lower-alcohol trend is well-rooted in the craft-beer scene, says Toronto’s Stephen Beaumont (co-author of The Pocket Beer Guide and The World Atlas of Beer), with many breweries already making more session-style beers. Places such as Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto offer a broader spectrum of styles at various alcohol levels. Case in point: Bellwoods’ heavyweight champ is a Russian imperial stout that packs a 10% ABV (alcohol by volume) punch. In the other corner is a bantam-weight light India session ale that tips the scales at just 2.3% ABV. Loosely put, “sessionable” beers, which hark back to the First World War, are meant to be highly quaffable so you can drink them over a long period of time—a session. They
typically fall under 5% ABV, ideal for having a few without a one-two knockout. That doesn’t mean these are “light” beers—in any sense of the word. Bellwoods also has a middle-weight session stout that’s 3.8% ABV. Less alcohol certainly doesn’t equate to less exciting. On the contrary, expect to see fortified wines or amari and spirits such as vermouth to take a bit more of the spotlight, especially boutique brands, says Cormier. Some bartenders will even create their own bespoke boozes. McGuinness echoes this sentiment. She also sees sherry showing up on cocktail lists and, in Vancouver, the opportunity to showcase local spirits made by craft distillers. On the world stage, rum is reportedly enjoying a renaissance as the “spirit of the moment” with our commonwealth cousins, according to a recent survey that tracks spirits by consumption in the UK. Beaumont applauds this move. “In booze, brown spirits will continue to tear it up, with aged rums finally achieving some long-overdue respect.” Does that mean Brits’ beloved G&T is being edged aside, perhaps with something darker and stormier? Maybe. Overall, though, expect excellence. The aforementioned David Rios stated that in 2014 bartenders will seek to perfect cocktails and showcase their simplicity. For McGuinness, this is already evidenced at home, with bartenders “stepping up their game…refining classics with an absolute focus on technique as well as customer service.” That customer-centric focus is essential to Cormier who is over the ego-driven attitude of some bartenders. “The main focus of a bartender is to fill the needs of the consumer, no matter what they want—gin and tonic or seven-ingredient cocktail. They should receive the same level of service. “What bartenders are discovering now,” says Cormier, “are ways of speeding up service (cocktails on tap, slushy machines, carbonating and pre-batching/bottling), but they are also taking on culinary methods of boosting flavour and enhancing the experience (saline solutions, sodium bicarbonate solutions, carbonation), which is resulting in some amazingly efficient and extremely flavourful cocktails.” Cheers to that.
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the hungry doctor Dr. fong
Spring is in the Air! Dr. Holly Fong is a practising speech-language pathologist with three young children who’s always trying, adapting and creating dishes.
It’s Time to Go to the Beach!
green peas + ham
This Easter dinner make a meaty ham bone in split-pea soup
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aster dinner at my house is usually ham or lamb. My children prefer ham when it’s glazed and adorned with pineapple or orange slices. Most likely, it’s the combination of sweet and salt that wins them over. For me, I find ham a tad too salty. But when put in a hearty pea soup, it mellows, adding depth of flavour. With this in mind, I always bake a bone-in ham and add the meaty ham bone to my broth. To make the soup, it’s best to start overnight. If you make the broth the night before and let it cool, it’s easier to skim off the fat. Soak the peas for 6 to 8 hours in a big pot of water to cut cooking time by more than half. To give the soup an appealing colour contrast, use both green and yellow peas. Add the green peas a little later in the cooking process so that they hold their shape. The end result is a soup
Split pea soup with ham (serves 8 – 10) broth
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Place yellow peas in a strainer and rinse under cold running water. Empty peas into a pot and fill with water so that peas are covered by about 3inches of water. Cover and let stand overnight. Repeat withgreen peas, soaking in a separate pot. Add 1tablespoon of oil to a heavy stockpot over medium-highheat. When oil is shimmering, swirl to coat bottom. Add sliced onions, reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring until brown but not burnt. Add carrots, thyme, peppercorns, ham bone and about 10cups of water to cover the bone. Bring to a boil. Skim off froth. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer for 1hour. Turn off heat, let cool overnight without lifting lid before skimming off fat. Remove ham bone, shred meat into bite-size pieces and add to diced leftover ham. Strain brothand discard solids. Heat 1tablespoon of oil in large heavy skillet over medium-highheat
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The united kingdom is the destination for adventure— from the high still going strong in london courtesy of the 2012 olympics to coasteering in wales. OH, and there’s the 2014 commonwealth games in glasgow this summer…tally-ho! >> story + photography by barb Sligl
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LONDON CALLING After the Olympics the buzzword in London is legacy. Whatever one thinks of the IOC and its sports spectacle, the Games do initiate change in its host cities, and in the UK’s singular metropolis that has meant a revamped East London. Industrial wasteland has been reclaimed and morphed into parkland where families stroll, people gather for a pint or Pimm’s and London Walks offers insightful tours through the new greenway, graffiti-clad streets, past Olympic venues and public art. 1 2 {walks.com} On the other end of the city is the village of Wimbledon, home of tennis’s biggest competition. There are strict rules and etiquette (the grass, for one, is measured and mowed to a precise 8mm every day) and the battles fought here are so epic that, as past champion Goran Ivanisevic put it, “If I never win another match I don’t care.” 3 {wimbledon.com} Back in the heart of London, refuel at the South Bank’s OXO Tower (once a warehouse for, yes, the bouillon cube) where the Harvey Nichols restaurant serves a fanciful “Not Afternoon Tea.” Sip on the “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue” welcome drink and gaze over the Thames. 4 {harveynichols.com} And as twilight approaches, head up river to one of the world’s largest ferris wheels, The London Eye, where you’ll have 40-km views from the top (previous page). {londoneye.com} Here, you go big.
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Where every Saturday there are “cars you won’t see the other six days of the week” When Crystal Cove was lost as its venue, the Ford duo had the moxie to render the ginormous Ford/Mazda corporate campus in Irvine available Saturday mornings. Thus was born the “Cars and Coffee” name that launched on October 2006 in Irvine. So for the past seven years, 51 weeks a year, Cars and Coffee has found its sea of tranquility at the Ford/Mazda Irvine campus. Kudos also to Taco Bell World Headquarters chipping in its 600-plus parking garage tower for spectator use. This weekly Irvine Event studiously avoids media coverage, websites, email lists, Twitter, Facebook, vendors hawking their wares, “For Sale” signs, etc. Any communication between the volunteer organizers and participants is by informal word-of-mouth on Saturday mornings. The event’s biggest fear is repeating its past growth, and wearing out its venues’ welcome mat. Five hundred cars can be displayed at Ford/Mazda. No guarantee exists that a proud owner hoping to occupy one of those coveted spots will be admitted. John Clinard, his wife, Linda, and four dedicated volunteer gatekeepers have the unenviable but necessary task of deciding which cars gain admission and regularly distributing printed guidelines to newcomers. Fortunately, they have the requisite grace and gravitas to make it work. The crowd at It helps that John is six Cars and Coffee feet tall, with a disarming in Orange County, radio-esque voice and a California, check out long and storied CV that “Cars you won’t see the other six days of includes Pebble Beach the week.” online.carsto a spinoff gathering at Crystal Concours judging. andcoffee.info Cove Promenade, a shopping Throngs of wellmecca south of Newport Beach. behaved, well-caffeinated Here, numbers grew exponentially. spectators roam among the 500 Noise and congestion too. Before long local displayed cars. Coffee lovers will notice politicians, residents and businesses would that coffee shares equal billing with the cars. be “asking” the group of enthusiasts to move This titular equivalency is a now-historical along. anomaly. While today’s cars are rare, fine and eclectic, the coffee is more akin to swill in This growth and/or crisis sequence paper cups served alongside factory-made repeated itself serially. Deja vu all over again, donuts that would make a Timmy’s regular so to speak. cringe. No seats or tables on offer. (You’ve Seven years ago, regular Crystal Cove attendees included Ford Motor Company senior been warned). brass and all-round good-guy movers-andSo how about the cars? The tag line, “Cars shakers Freeman Thomas and John Clinard. you won’t see the other six days of the week,”
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applies if you aren’t from SoCal or if you only drive on SoCal expressways. I constantly spot rare and interesting cars being driven around in other California settings. So it depends. Roughly 200 die-hard owners of interesting cars come every Saturday. The other 300 interesting cars vary week to week. With a population of well over 15 million to draw from, most high-end, late-model Ferraris, Lamborghinis, McLarens, Bugattis, Porsches and Mercedes are represented. More interesting to me are the mobile history lessons of past models of these brands: 1950s Porsche 356, gullwing SL Mercedes and a mid-’60s Ferrari 275 GTB. And the stray old Citroens, Maseratis, Alfas and Lancias present could take a lifetime to spot on the street in Canada. Being California, there are lots of aircooled VWs (both stock and customized), ’50s finned cars, ’60s muscle cars and early Japanese imports, ’70s custom vans, off-road monsters, ’30s classics, race cars from just about every era and discipline, and more of the same in motorcycles. Of course, being around all these great cars and their appreciative fan base, made me wax nostalgic for many of my own 40-odd cars to date. Few were particularly valuable at the time of my ownership. Yet today, apart from a handful of family haulers and econoboxes, they would likely get the John/Linda nod of approval at the gate. I mean, when is the last time you saw a 1969 Bedford C (aka “Doormobile”)—even if I paid just $900 for it as a Senior Houseman? Or my $1,200 1976 Olds Cutlass Supreme Vista Cruiser wagon—my ride during medical school (race car tow vehicle of my then Gordini R8)? Or my $2,200 1967 MGB GT, red with factory wire wheels? I could go on. And on. And on. But, it’s far more self-actualizing that you do your own nostalgic automotive navel gazing. There is no place like the original Cars and Coffee in Orange County to appreciate the role that car culture, and by extension California, has played in your life. And you can do so 51 Saturday mornings per year. Attending is worth the pilgrimage for any car guy/gal the next time you are in LA. Just stop for fine coffee en route.
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The Evangeline Trail
A Tale of Acadie
Besides its famous lobster feasts, Nova Scotia’s Evangeline Trail boasts a menu that includes the world’s most capricious high tides and a plethora of quaint historic villages, spectacular seascapes, lighthouses, award-winning wineries, UNESCO sites, unpretentious Acadian hospitality and the legend of Evangeline Bellefontaine story + photography by michael defreitas THIS PAGE: Replica of an Acadian homestead at the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens.
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Stella Maris—proudly flutters from porches and public buildings, and rolls through the wineries and orchards of the Annapolis Valley before ending in Bedford. The route gets its name from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic 1847 poem, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie that traces the sad romantic tale of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine, who was separated from her betrothed, Gabriel Lajeunesse, on their wedding day during the Great Expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia. Between 1755 and 1764, the British violently removed from their homes any French loyalist (Acadian) that refused to pledge an oath of loyalty to the Queen, and crammed them into cargo ships bound for Louisiana and British American colonies. More than half of the 18,000 expelled Acadians died en route. After years of searching for her Gabriel, a much older Evangeline settles in Philadelphia where she works among the poor as a Sister of Mercy. While tending the dying during an epidemic she finds Gabriel among the sick, and he dies in her arms. The poignant poem helped define both Acadian history and identity in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Long a seldom-seen isle some 175 km off of Nova Scotia—frequented only by sea lions and pirates—Sable Island is now Canada’s 43rd national park. With its new national-park distinction, those sea lions, wild horses (here since the 18th century) and scores of birds (up to 330 far-flung species, waylaid by turbulent marine weather) are protected on what’s been dubbed the Graveyard of the Atlantic for the many shipwrecks upon its stormy shores. That means a side trip to this Canadian Galapagos can be a bit of a challenge, but there’s now a supereasy way of getting here: Adventure Canada is offering cruises to the island starting this June. adventurecanada.com pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ns/sable/visit.aspx
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From 1830 to 1880, Yarmouth earned the title of the richest small town in the world. This once bustling 19th-century shipbuilding capital now supports a large fishing industry and a vibrant Acadie culture. Quaint shops flank its delightful Main Street and dozens of magnificent Victorian mansions, built by successful sea captains, grace the side streets. A self-directed four-kilometre historic walking tour covers 30 unique shops, 26 mansions and two museums. Guarding the harbour entrance, a few kilometres south of town, stands the 1839 Cape Forchu Lightstation. The small fascinating museum in the old lightkeeper’s house documents much of Yarmouth’s colourful past. Just east of Yarmouth, in the tiny village of Tusket, you’ll find the 1805 Argyle Township Court House & Goal. Canada’s oldest courthouse features jailer’s quarters and a prisoners’ cellblock on the first floor while the second floor houses the courtroom and old judge’s chambers.
The Digby Neck
Continuing north of Yarmouth, you’ll pass through 18th-century bastions of Acadian culture including Saulnierville with its elegant 1880 Sacré Cœur (Sacred Heart)
Church, Comeauville where you can hike and kayak picturesque Smuggler’s Cove Marine Provincial Park and Gilbert’s Cove with its old lighthouse. About midway on the Trail is the tiny fishing village of Digby, “The scallop capital of the world.” Under the leadership of Admiral Sir Robert Digby, British Loyalists from New York and New England settled in Digby in 1783. Housed in a mid-1800s Georgian home, the Admiral Digby Museum features period rooms and artifacts related to Loyalist life after the Great Expulsion. Each July the town holds it famous Lobster Bash to celebrate its fishing heritage. This fun family event features lobster trap hauling, trap stacking, lobster crate races, a huge outdoor kitchen party and outdoor concerts that culminate in a beautiful flotilla parade of lights and fireworks display in the harbour. Extending southwest from Digby is a long narrow peninsula called the Digby Neck. The Digby Neck and Islands Scenic Drive, Highway 217, runs along the peninsula and its two barrier islands, and offers some of Nova Scotia’s best birding and whalewatching vistas. You’ll have to make two free short ferry crossings at East Ferry and Freeport to get to the lighthouse at the southern tip of Brier Island, but it’s definitely worth the drive.
Annapolis Valley
Stretching northeast from Digby to Grand Pré the Evangeline Trail parallels the Annapolis River as it snakes through the beautiful Annapolis Valley. Perched on the north bank of the river’s mouth is Port Royal, the original 1605 site of the first French settlement and capital of the colony of Acadia. In 1925, the government designated part of the town the Port-Royal National Historic Site and built the Habitation at Port-Royal, a replica of the original French settlement. After the British destroyed Port Royal in 1613, the French relocated the settlement 10 kilometres upstream where it prospered until the British captured it in 1710 and renamed it Annapolis Royal (after Queen Anne). The town served as the capital of Acadia and later Nova Scotia for almost 150 years, until the founding of Halifax in 1749. Annapolis Royal is one of the more popular stops along the Evangeline Trail and in 1994 the government designated the town’s historic core a National Historic Site of Canada. The historic town center features 150 heritage buildings including the 1708 deGannes-Cosby >> continued on page 26
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House, Canada’s oldest wooden house, the five-hectare Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens (a top five North American garden) and the 1708 Fort Anne National Historic Site. Each evening fort staff, dressed in period costumes, lead candlelight tours of the fort’s cemetery, one of North America’s oldest, and tell tales of some of its more famous residents. At the eastern end of the Annapolis Valley, on the banks of the Avon River and Minas Basin, the Trail passes through its most popular stop, Grand Pré, Evangeline’s fictional hometown. In 1912, the region’s stunning landscape and historical significance prompted UNESCO to designate about 13-square-kilometres surrounding the town, Canada’s 16th World Heritage Site. Acadians reclaimed this region from the sea by erecting a series of 17th-century dykes between Grand Pré and Wolfville to hold back the huge Fundy tides. Twice each day the tide rises and falls eight metres, leaving entire inlets and harbours along the Basin waterless, and good-sized fishing boats tilted askew alongside towering wharves and breakwaters. The last 70 kilometres of the Trail from Grand Pré to Bedford is packed with breathtaking scenery and must-see attractions including the Fox Hill cheese factory in Port Williams, the award-winning Grand Pré Wines vineyard in Grande Pré and the 1750 Fort Edward National Historic Site in Windsor. The Evangeline Trail is more than a nice drive; it’s a journey through Acadian history and culture. A journey filled with picturesque villages strung along the coast like brightly painted fishing buoys, where colourful marooned boats, like discarded toys, litter mud flats at low tide, and numerous roadside eateries serve delicious Acadian favourites like beignets a la râpure (potato fritter or pancake) or a starchy rappie pie (baked seafood or chicken potato casserole). It’s a journey filled with surprises around every bend in the road.
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read The complete version of Longfellow’s passionate tale is available here: nslegislature. ca/pdfs/about/evangeline/Evangeline.pdf stay You’ll find hundreds of delightful, inexpensive B&Bs and cozy country inns along the Trail. Make advance bookings through Nova Scotia Association of Unique Country Inns (uniquecountryinns.com) and Nova Scotia Bed and Breakfasts (nsbedandbreakfast.com). more For more info on sights, attractions and events along the Trail call Nova Scotia Tourism at 800-565-0000 or visit the province’s tourism website at novascotia.com.
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rit can be good. And Glasgow has had its share of grit. It’s known for the Glaswegian kiss, after all. Not a romantic gesture but rather, ahem, a passionate head butt. Glaswegians are nothing if not ardent. But that Scottish bravado is now being channelled into some very worthy pursuits. Like the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The streets showcase public art heralding the Games and venues like the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and The Hydro are bringing a modern edge to this historic city (see page 15). Medal-winning cyclist David Daniell, who works and trains at the velodrome, raves that it’s the best sports facility in the UK—and beyond. And it’s open to the public. Accessibility is important to the rejuvenation of this city. The Gallery of Modern Art is free—always. 1 {glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/GoMA} And there’s public art throughout Glasgow, from the statue of the Duke of Wellington outside the gallery (with a now-permanent traffic cone atop his head that’s become a symbolic poke at authority) to the street art tucked away in alleys. Empire, by renowned Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, references
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Glasgow’s past as the industrial centre of the British Empire, the Merchant City. 2 Its backwards letters, mirrored to be read in reflection, can be interpreted as a deeper comment on Glasgow’s dichotomous character, from prosperous ship-building powerhouse to post-industrial, high-unemployment decline, a swing from leader to lost. Happily, Glasgow has found its way again, thanks in large part to a vibrant student culture. The city has had the storied University of Glasgow since 1451, the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world. More hallowed than any Ivy League school, walking the university’s grounds is to see Glasgow’s past glory still thriving. 3 {gla.ac.uk} Another iconic school is the Glasgow School of Art, a “creative hothouse” founded in 1845. {gsa.ac.uk} One of its most famous alumni is renowned architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who, by the end of the 19th century, solidified the GSA as a world-class art academy, especially in the decorative arts, examples of which are scattered throughout the city, like at the go-to eatery, Two Fat Ladies at The Buttery. 4 {twofatladiesrestaurant.com}
Current GSA student, Fran Lightbound personifies the new Glasgow. Bright and stylish, she’s a guide for the Glasgow Miracle Walking Tour and shares the “miracle” of the city’s creative regeneration, when artists in the 1970s began redefining it as an internationally acclaimed arts mecca. 5 {gsa.ac.uk/visit-gsa/city-walking-tours} And then there’s the food and drink. Two musts here: whiskey and curry. Local Scotch aficionado, Peter Stewart, known as “Smiley Pete,” guides neophytes through the whiskey-tasting process, and he’ll likely get you to try some of Scotland’s fabulous gins too… 6 {inverarity121.com} As for curry, Glasgow proudly held the title of Curry Capital of Britain in 2013, and plans to keep it. It’s no wonder, then, that at one locals’-fave Indian restaurant, Mr. Singh’s, you can sample the only-in-Scotland combo of Haggis and curry. Um, yum? {mistersinghsindia.com} There’s creativity to the brim in Glasgow, whether in sport, art, food or drink. Let’s have a kiss… —B. Sligl For more, go to the Glasgow City Marketing Bureau website: peoplemakeglasgow.com.
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Aesthetic Medicine
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The Physician Skincare and Training Centre
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Dr. Martin’s Training Centre Canada
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May 23-25
Toronto Ontario
Contemporary Acupuncture Advances: Technology-Based Approaches And Applications In Musculoskeletal Medicine
McMaster University
905-525-9140
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Jul 12-19
Tuscany Italy
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416-910-4513
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Clinical Concerns In Anesthesia
Northwest Anesthesia new CME list from Adam Seminars
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Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia And Vascular Access Workshop
Northwest Anesthesia Seminars
800-222-6927
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Frank Moya Continuing Education Programs
800-425-1995
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Clinical Advances In Arrhythmias And Cardiovascular Disease
Scripps Conference Services and CME
800-727-4777
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World Congress Of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2014
World Heart Federation
41-22-80703-28
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May 24
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Practical Advice For New Consultants: Before And After Appointment
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
44-0-141-2216072
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Aug 11-15
Hawaii Hawaii
Emergency Medicine Update: Hot Topics 2014
UC Davis Health System
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Dec 19-21
New York New York
Medical Dilemmas In Patient Care Conference
Southern Medical Association
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Apr 11-12
Toronto Ontario
Canadian Endocrine 10th Annual Update (CEU) Scientific Meeting / 3rd Annual Review Course (CERC)
McMaster University
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Jun 21-24
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The Endocrine Society
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Clinical Endocrinology Update
The Endocrine Society
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May 03-06
Chicago Illinois
Digestive Disease Week 2014
Digestive Disease Week
301-272-0022
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Jul 19-20
Monterey California
2014 Update In Gastroenterology And Hepatology For The Primary Care Practitioner
UC Davis Health
916-734-5390
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Oct 17-22
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
ACG Annual Meeting & Postgraduate Course
American College of Gastroenterology
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Dec 04-06
Orlando Florida
Advances In Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s Clinical & Research Conference
Imedex
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University of Glasgow
44-0-141-3303123
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May 02-04
Prague Czech Republic
European Focus On Myeloproliferative Neoplasms And Myelodysplastic Syndromes
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Royal Australasian College Of Surgeons, Annual Scientific Congress And Australian And New Zealand College Of Anaesthetists, Annual Scientific Meeting
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May 24
Glasgow Scotland
Practical Advice For New Consultants: Before And After Appointment
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
44-0-141-2216072
rcpsg.ac.uk
Jun 02-12
Baltic and Russia Cruise
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Jun 24-28
Kuopio Finland
The International 22nd Puijo Symposium Physical Exercise In Clinical Medicine - Critical Appraisal Of Scientific Evidence
Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine
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Sep 13-17
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Oct 15-28
Asian Cruise (Diamond Princess)
Medical CBT For Depression: Ten-Minute Techniques For Real Doctors
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Sep 08-19
Mediterranean Cruise
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27th Annual American Society Of Pediatric Hematology Oncology Meeting: ASPHO 2014
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847-375-4716
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Sep 14-19
Boston Massachusetts
Cancer Medicine And Hematology
Harvard Medical School
617-384-8600
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Aug 15
San Diego California
Chronic Disease Management In Diverse Populations
Scripps Conference Services and CME
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Sep 10-20
Ireland Cruise
Updates in Disease Prevention & Public Healthcare Delivery - Explore The Emerald Isle
Professional Education Society
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Tahiti Cruise
Updates in Disease Prevention & Public Healthcare Delivery
Professional Education Society
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Scottsdale Arizona
25th Annual Clinical Reviews - A Family Medicine And Internal Medicine Update
Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona
480-301-4580
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May 12-15
Paris France
Internal Medicine For Primary Care: ID/CV/ Vasc/Neuro
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Aug 03-10
St. Petersburg Russia
East West Medical & Legal Conference
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Costa Navarino Messinia Greece
The 9th Greek Legal And Medical Conference
Eugenia Mitrakas
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Florence Italy
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Las Vegas Nevada
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Contemporary Forums
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Oncology & Palliative Care
Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Boston Massachusetts
The Michael J. Bresnan Child Neurology Course
Harvard Medical School
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Aug 08-10
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Apr 26-30
San Diego California
78th American Society For Nutrition (ASN) Scientific Sessions & Annual Meeting
American Society For Nutrition
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San Antonio Texas
American College Of Nutrition’s 55th Annual Conference Translational Nutrition: Turning Research Into Practice
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São Paulo Brazil
12th World Congress On Endometriosis
World Endometriosis Society
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May 31Jul 01
Boston Massachusetts
2nd Annual Collaborative Symposium - Update In Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Harvard Medical School
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Jun 05-08
Sonoma California
Women’s Health Conference
UC Davis Health
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Jul 27-30
Jackson Hole Wyoming
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Jul 28-31
Kiawah Island South Carolina
Focus On The Female Patient Conference
Southern Medical Association
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American Medical Association
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Tahiti and Society Islands Cruise
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Victoria Hospice Society
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Victoria Hospice Society
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The Humanity Exchange
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Jun 05-07
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Pediatrics Advances
University of California San Francisco
415-476-5808
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Wilderness Medicine
Technology
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Psychiatry/Psychology
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cme
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where
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website
Jun 16-20
Amelia Island Florida
21st Annual Clinical Reviews And Primary Care Update - 2014
Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
800-462-9633
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Palm Coast Florida
8th Annual Primary Care Spring Conference: Session I
Continuing Education Company
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Jul 20-23
Jackson Hole Wyoming
Hot Topics In Primary Care
Contemporary Forums
858-652-5400
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Aug 01-03
San Diego California
31st Annual Primary Care Summer Conference
Scripps Conference Services and CME
858-652-5400
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Mar 23-26 2015
Maui Hawaii
20th Annual Primary Care In Paradise
Scripps Conference Services and CME
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May 29-31
Toronto Ontario
CAMH Summer Training Institute: CBT Beyond The Basics
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
800-463-6273
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Jan 08-10 2015
Whistler British Columbia
Medical CBT For Anxiety: Ten-Minute Techniques For Real Doctors
CBT Canada
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Feb 16-26 2015
Tahitian Cruise (Ocean Princess)
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CBT Canada
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May 15-16
St. Pete Beach Florida
Advanced Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Education - Hands-On Training Seminar
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute
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St. Pete Beach Florida
Introduction To Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute
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Oct 27-30
Sonoma California
2014 Update On Advanced Imaging In The California Wine Country
UC Davis Health System
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Apr 02-06
Phoenix Arizona
Laser 2014: 34th ASLMS Annual Conference
American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery
877-258-6028
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Sep 20-21
Jersey City New Jersey
2014 Laser Aesthetics Course
American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery
877-258-6028
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Contraceptive Technology
Contemporary Forums
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Aug 01-06
Jackson Hole Wyoming
Jackson Hole: The Crossroads Of Wilderness And Travel Medicine. WMS Annual Meeting In Conjunction With The International Society Of Travel Medicine
Wilderness Medical Society
801-990-2988
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Aug 01-06
Tuscon Arizona
Desert Medicine Conference
Wilderness Medical Society
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You can add or remove beneficiaries without their consent or tax implications.
You protect the corporation from creditors. While beneficiaries are the actual owners of the trust, the beneficiary’s interest in a typical discretionary trust has no commercial value. This prevents creditors from getting access to the trust assets or the shares of the
you to shop for a low-rate jurisdiction to shelter your income. Because of Alberta’s low tax rate, many trusts are resident in this province. In order to have a trust reside in a jurisdiction, the majority of the trustees must also reside there and the administration of the trust must also be carried on in the same location. To illustrate the tax benefits, a $1 million gain taxed in an Alberta trust saves about $30,000 of income taxes compared with a trust resident in Ontario.
You avoid probate fees. If you transfer investments or personal assets to a trust, these trust assets are no longer part of your estate and not subject to probate fees. Important to remember is that a transfer of assets to a family trust must be at fair market value, which means that a capital gain can be triggered on the transfer.
You can double up on the principal residence exemption. Many doctors know that the gain on the sale of the family home is tax-exempt. If your family owns a recreational property, the principal residence exemption must either be allocated to the family home or to the recreational property, but not both. When your children turn 18, they become entitled to their own principal residence exemption. Furthermore, if the trust purchases the recreational property, the gain on the sale of the property can be sheltered by the beneficiary’s principal residence exemption. The residence exemption, however, is only possible once the child turns 18, and the child must have used the property during the period of ownership. If you are contemplating to acquire a personal residence, consider having the family trust purchase it. Because there are some important technical rules you need to follow when setting up such a principal residence trust, it is crucial that you obtain advice from your accountant.
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The typical trust document gives you, as the trustee, full discretion in the management of the trust. It takes a simple trust document to add a new family member to income split with. You can also remove one with whom you may have a conflict or who is no longer providing tax benefits. Adding or removing shareholders without the trust is a big deal. This can result in paying large professional fees to reorganize the share capital and unexpected tax bills in case of a departing shareholder. While the leaving shareholder may be willing to surrender the shares to you without any payment, the Tax Department treats such a transfer as a disposition at fair market value. For instance, if the shares have a market value of $100,000, you can expect to pay tax of about $25,000.
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Do we care if cursive writing goes the way of the dodo?
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recently had a patient tell me how she had had to fight with her sons’ school in order that her children be taught cursive writing (also referred to as script, joinedup writing, joint writing, running writing or handwriting). My first reaction was of outrage, but upon reflection I am beginning to change my mind. Historically there was probably outrage when wax tablets gave way to papyrus, papyrus to parchment, parchment to paper and eventually paper scrolls to books. The recording devices for these media have also undergone an evolution. The quill pen became the dipping pen and later the fountain pen. These have been superseded by ball-point pens. Alongside these came the invention of the mechanical typewriter followed by the electric daisy-wheel machine,
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the stand-alone word-processor and now the computer and multitudes of tablets. The purpose of all of these is the transfer of information, with the added advantage of permanence and asynchronicity—the Dead Sea scrolls being an extreme example of this. Today’s evolving medicine, with the fragmentation of primary care and the concentration within hospitals of complex patients involving several disparate specialties, means safe, rapid and reliable transfer of information is essential. Handwriting is far from ideal for this purpose. Yet even in a new hospital with everything state-of-the-art, including the electronic medical record and every kind of monitoring device, the day-to-day progress notes are still handwritten. This means that they cannot be easily entered into
the electronic medical record (they could be scanned but this is not immediate and labour inefficient); when remotely accessing the hospital record this vital data is not available. Paper-chart entries are labourious and slow to read at best, and illegible and potentially misleading at worst. But their advantage is that the information is immediately available to anybody geographically or temporally close to the writer. Doctors’ handwriting, the butt of many jokes, is not really a joke at all. Handwritten prescriptions are easily misread and interpreting the hastily written script wastes pharmacists’ time. Studies in the US estimate 7,000 deaths a year are attributable to this, and the UK gives the figure of 30,000 a year. With the availability of computer and
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tablets, rapid, reliable and digital writing is easily possible. The disadvantage with these is that not many physicians can type much more than 30 words per minute; handwriting is probably quicker in the short-term. Voice recognition has now reached the level where, while not perfect, it is safely usable. It’s certainly quicker than handwriting and less tiring. With experience this can be extremely productive with simple commands employing macros to ‘write’ no end of repetitive but medicolegally necessary information. Transcription services are also readily available and reasonably affordable. The hourly rate of a stenographer is more than covered by the time enabled to see another patient or two. And with the shortage of physicians such an increase in productivity has broader value too. I have several pens, and I am particularly fond of my Schaeffer fountain pen, but I rarely use it any more. This is somewhat sad but now my records and referral letters are completely legible and easy to read. Using the EMR, they are quicker to produce and contain a great deal more information since there is less temptation to abbreviate and omit material. Handwriting does transmit information that a word processor will not. The emotion and even personality of the writer that are revealed through script—forward or back sloping, bold and clear or carelessly scratched—are characteristics that will be lost. I guess it will make it difficult for the crime novelist! So should this evolution be allowed to go unchallenged? I am ambivalent. Are you? And one more thought: In my research for this essay there is a question to which I have not found an answer—how will the next generation sign their names?
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Dr. Pippa Moss likes to travel. A lot. It’s the one thing she’d change about herself: stay home in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, more often. Yet she’s happiest exploring new places. It’s what brings her to Kenya regularly as Project Lead for a home that provides family-based care for AIDs-abandoned and -orphaned children, named after a young girl named after Dr. Moss, who once sponsored her father (pippasplace.org). If she wasn’t an on-a-mission physician, she’d be an astronaut like her celebrity crush, Roberta Bondar. Her motto? Per ardua ad astra, which telling means “Through adversity to the stars.”
I live and practise in: Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, when not with my son in Toronto or at the house in Sackville, New Brunswick where
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Why I was drawn to medicine and my specialty: I thought that I wanted to be a family doctor because I admired a doctor that I had met in England
My ultimate dream vacation: Visit the crater on Devon Island where they have a mock Mars Settlement If I could travel to any time, I’d go…: 1969
My favourite CD/album or song: Varies from day to day but it is NEVER jazz! My first job: Car parts salesperson! I had no idea what I was doing and had to look everything up. The gadget or gear I could not do without: My Mac comes to mind, but I do go without it. Maybe my Tilley travel gear.
KUDOS TO DR. MOSS! She won this magazine’s VISA gift card in the Winter 2014 issue and took it to Kenya as a reward for a local boy’s achievement in high school.
My fondest memory: So hard to choose
Most-frequented store: Atlantic Superstore, sadly! My closet has too many: Clothes My fridge is always stocked with: Good chocolate
My degrees / training: My medical degree is from the UK and I trained in Psychiatry there and at Dalhousie in Halifax, NS
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The best souvenir I’ve brought back from a trip: Pictures
A talent I wish I had: Ability to sing opera
My car: Jaguar—allwheel-drive
Last splurge: Paying for a conference in Tahiti, which I will leave for in three weeks time
The most exotic place I’ve travelled to: Hard to decide—how do you define exotic?
My secret to relaxing: Mindfullness
My favourite room: Bathroom; to be precise, the tub
My last purchase: Nakuru for paintings, top Dr. Pippa Moss (right) on a cold morning in Nairobi for Masai Mara with Ann, a Kenyan batiks, Isteacher. far left Dr. Moss (centre) tanbul for and friends wear Masai blankets jewelry given as a thank-you for their work and then at an elementary school through Frankfurt the Fundy Peace Foundation. near left Dr. Moss inside the Masai for chocohome of a grandmother (left) late
My last trip: Masai Mara and Nakuru, Kenya, working with children there
I’d want this item with me if stranded on a desert island: A flint
My scariest moment: Landing in a plane with no brakes, the wheels not down properly and leaking avgas
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he used to live. I practice in Amherst, Truro, New Glasgow and Sydney, Nova Scotia, and hope to practise in Toronto as well this year.
unless you count Roberta Bondar
My biggest challenge: Being stranded on Kilimanjaro with my son in severe pulmonary oedema
I’m inspired by: People who think outside the box and explore
My greatest fear: Ending up saying: “Of all the things I’ve lost, it’s my mind I miss the most”
Guilty pleasure: Chocolate (and teas)
A cause that’s close to my heart: Children
My favourite exercise/ sport: Hiking
On my must-do list: Fly around the world, preferably first class, just to do it!
Celebrity crush: None,
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I’m happiest when: Exploring new places
My favourite book: Stranger in a Strange Land, by Heinlein
My favourite sport to watch: None
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My biggest ego blow: Someone who obviously dislikes me
A favourite place that I keep returning to: Home in Tatamagouche
Must-see TV: If any (I do not have a TV), The Big Bang Theory
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My biggest ego boost: Being loved by my wonderful and patient husband
My medicine cabinet is always stocked with: A variety of items for my first-aid kit
My favourite film: Fried Green Tomatoes
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One thing I’d change about myself: The desire to travel—a lot!
My motto: Per ardua ad astra
If I wasn’t a doctor I’d be: An astronaut
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My name: Pippa Moss
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