My receptionist of 17 years quit last August, at 39 years old. She and her husband had decided it was time to have a child, says a 53-year-old family physician in New Westminster, BC. A happy event, of course, but I was devastated. She ran the practice like a well-oiled ... Do you have patients you hate Be honest, there are several in most practices. Those people who make you cringe when you see their names on the appointment schedule. A Scarborough, ON, family practitioner describes one of her difficult patients The woman had serious anger problems and I became the ...

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