"Everything Possible Is Being Done": Labour, Mobility, and the Organization of Health Services in Mid-20 Century Newfoundland.

This article is the Presidential Address to the 2018 meeting of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine at the University of Regina. It examines the organization of the nursing service in Newfoundland during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the recruitment and retention of nurses in cottage hospitals and nursing stations in outport communities. A number of interconnected strategies were used by the Newfoundland government to staff the nursing service, including recruiting internationally educated nurses, adjusting expectations with respect to registration standards, and using both trained and untrained workers to support nurses' labour.

Education, expertise, experience and the making of hospital workers in Canada, 1920-1960.

Beginning in the 1920s, many Canadian hospitals underwent an extensive period of modernization. A wide variety of workers, generally termed "allied health professionals," began to work alongside physicians and nurses. This paper examines the history of two such groups, x-ray and laboratory technicians, paying particular attention to the ways in which technical education was transformed and, through this transformation, new occupational identities forged.

What influences seniors' choice of medications for osteoarthritis? Qualitative inquiry.

Objective: To explore with seniors what influences their choice of medication for osteoarthritis.

Design: Qualitative study using semistructured in-depth interviews.

Setting: Interviews were conducted in patients' homes in two cities in Nova Scotia.

Evidence-based cardiovascular care. Family physicians' views of obstacles and opportunities.

Objective: To explore obstacles to and opportunities for applying specific lifestyle and pharmacologic recommendations on chronic ischemic heart disease.

Design: Qualitative study.

Setting: Rural, town, and city settings in Nova Scotia.

Recent writing on health care history in Canada.

These are halcyon days for health care history in Canada. One routinely sees articles pertaining to health in leading Canadian and international history journals. The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History is a vibrant and important vehicle and there are a growing number of monographs.

A qualitative study of evidence in primary care: what the practitioners are saying.

Background: Little is known about the impact of evidence-based medicine in primary care. Our objective was to explore the influence of evidence on day-to-day family practice, with specific reference to cardiovascular disease.

Methods: A total of 9 focus groups were conducted in rural, semi-urban and urban settings in Nova Scotia.

Group interviews in primary care research: advancing the state of the art or ritualized research?

Background: Focus groups have become an important data gathering technique in primary care research.

Objectives: This study provides an integrated review of recent articles that used focus groups as a data collection method to gather information from family physicians.

Methods: Medline was searched for articles that used focus groups with family physicians in a North American setting during the 1990s.