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FAMILY DOCTOR [9 records]

Record 1 2024-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Medical Staff
  • General Medicine
DEF

A medical specialist who plans and provides the comprehensive primary health care of all members of a family, regardless of age or sex, on a continuous basis.

CONT

Family physicians demonstrate competence in the patient-centred clinical method; they integrate a sensitive, skillful, and appropriate search for disease. They demonstrate an understanding of patients’ experience of illness (particularly their ideas, feelings, and expectations) and of the impact of illness on patients’ lives.

CONT

Many Canadians have a family doctor they go to whenever they need medical care. A family doctor gives basic health care, including treating you when you are sick and encouraging preventative health care.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Personnel médical
  • Médecine générale
CONT

Le médecin de famille établit le plus souvent le premier contact avec le malade, assume généralement la responsabilité de la continuité et de la globalité des soins, oriente son exercice en vue du traitement des maladies, de leur prévention et du maintien de la santé en tenant compte des besoins du patient et de son milieu de vie.

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2023-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Law
  • Ethics and Morals
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
DEF

[A] physician [order] not to resuscitate a patient in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest.

OBS

The order may be written by the person's doctor after discussing the issue beforehand with the person(if possible) or his or her proxy or family.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
  • Éthique et Morale
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
CONT

L'ordonnance de ne pas réanimer est écrite par le médecin. Elle donne pour instructions à l'équipe soignante de ne pas procéder à la réanimation cardiorespiratoire dans le cas d'un arrêt cardiaque (lorsque le cœur cesse de battre) ou respiratoire (lorsque la respiration s'arrête). Aucune manœuvre de réanimation ne sera faite à un patient qui a une telle ordonnance dans son dossier.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de salud
  • Ética y Moral
  • Tratamiento sin cirugía
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
DEF

[Orden] que se hace figurar en la historia clínica de un paciente para que, en caso de parada cardíaca, ni el equipo de enfermería ni el médico de guardia intenten maniobras para reanimar al paciente y le dejen morir. Se emplea en el caso de pacientes en que se sabe positivamente que dichas maniobras constituirían encarnizamiento terapéutico o serían fútiles.

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Record 4 2017-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Medical Staff
  • General Medicine
CONT

A family doctor or nurse practitioner is your primary health care provider – meaning they are the person you make an appointment with when you have a new, non-emergency health concern.

Key term(s)
  • primary healthcare provider

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Personnel médical
  • Médecine générale
CONT

Tous les enfants et les adolescents devraient disposer d’un dispensateur de soins primaires. Les médecins de famille, les infirmières praticiennes et les auxiliaires médicaux devraient recevoir une formation pertinente, en collaboration avec les pédiatres.

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
OBS

Vision : To empower humanity in the expression of maximum health, wellness and human potential through universal chiropractic expression and utilization. Mission : To advance chiropractic throughout the world as a distinct health care profession predicated upon its unique philosophy, science, and art. Objectives : Maintain and promote chiropractic' s unique identity as a non-therapeutic, drugless and surgical-free health science, based on its fundamental principles and philosophy. Provide leadership in the establishment of chiropractic licensure regulation in every nation and promote the quality and authenticity of chiropractic education. Foster the professional and technical development of the Doctor of Chiropractic through programs of continuing education, research, political, and social action. Encourage the highest professional, technical, and ethical standards for the doctor of chiropractic while safeguarding the professional welfare of its members. Champion the principle that every citizen in the world has the right to freedom of choice in health care and be able to choose unhampered the doctor and the healing art of his/her choice. Work harmoniously with other health care organizations and governments in a global humanitarian effort to foster chiropractic and spinal hygiene in the fields of family health(including children, women, and the elderly), and occupational health. Work for full inclusion of chiropractic in all public and private health care delivery programs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Medical Staff
OBS

Family Doctor Week in Canada is an opportunity to acknowledge the special role family doctors play in delivering health care to Canadians.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Personnel médical
OBS

La Semaine du médecin de famille au Canada est une occasion de reconnaître le rôle spécial des médecins de famille dans la prestation des soins de santé à la population canadienne.

Spanish

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Record 7 2005-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
DEF

A patient admitted to a hospital where their family doctor is unavailable to attend to their care.

CONT

Orphan patients create an ever-increasing burden for family practioners still caring for hospital inpatients. For many family practitioners, the main reason for providing inpatient services is the satisfaction of managing their own patients across the continuum of care and meeting patients’ expectations that they will do so. Orphan patients who are not part of their ongoing practice, take away from this satisfaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
OBS

patient orphelin : terme retenu par le réseau Entraide Traduction Santé.

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
OBS

English, French, Spanish, Polish. Human Life International(HLI) was founded in 1981 by Benedictine monk, Fr. Paul Marx. A Catholic priest and Doctor of Sociology. Fr. Marx was a pro-life pioneer in the 1960s and 1970s, teaching scientifically proven natural methods of birth spacing, commonly referred to as Natural Family Planning(NFP). Fr. Marx became alarmed at the increased reliance on abortion, especially among the young, and the proliferation of groups promoting abortion rights. He founded the Human Life Center at Minnesota's St. John's University in 1972. This became Human Life International in 1981. Through HLI Fr. Marx worked to promote NFP and to defend innocent unborn human life. HLI has grown over the years into a worldwide human rights organization, whose global mission is to protect and defend the right to life at all stages of human development and to promote natural methods of birth spacing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
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Record 9 1990-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Another fascinating case, stretching the rescue doctrine to its limits, is Urbanski v. Patel, where a father, who donated a kidney to his daughter, sued the doctor whose negligence precipitated the event. He was successful, the court holding that it was "entirely foreseable that one of her family would be invited, and would agree, to donate a kidney for transplant, an act which accords, too, with the principle developed in many ’rescue cases’".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Une autre affaire très intéressante où l'on a étiré la doctrine du sauvetage à l'extrême limite est l'affaire Urbanski v. Patel, où un père qui avait donné un de ses reins à sa fille en vue d'une transplantation a poursuivi le médecin dont la négligence avait rendu l'intervention nécessaire. Le tribunal a accueilli sa demande, déclarant que l'on pourrait "facilement prévoir qu'un parent de la jeune fille serait invité à lui donner un rein pour une transplantation, et qu'il accepterait; c'est là un acte compatible avec le principe élaboré dans de nombreux 'cas de sauvetage'".

OBS

Fiche terminologique en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle fournie par le Centre de traduction et de documentation juridique de l'Université d'Ottawa.

Spanish

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