MEDICAL PRACTICE FLUNKIES
I'm writing in regards to the article "They got game" (Vol 2 No 10), which ran in your May 30 issue and profiled two Edmonton doctors who started up their own video game company. Few of us are naive enough to believe that every medical school graduate will find lifelong fulfilment in the practice of medicine. Indeed, medical magazines have a knack for profiling those physicians who choose alternative career paths. But video game developers, who specialize in games of "life, love and smashing peoples' faces", hardly make the grade! It's enough to make a frustrated IMG break into a sweat in the hot kitchen of the pizza parlour. In future, spare us the adulation of such 'medical practice flunkies'.

Dr Seamus Donaghy
Grimsby,

editor's note
Dr Stewart Harris's credentials weren't stated in the May 30 "What to tell your patients about type II diabetes" (Vol 2 No 10). Please note that Dr Harris practises at the St Joseph's Health Centre, Hamilton, ON, and is an associate professor in the department of family medicine at Western University. He is also a spokesperson for the Canadian Diabetes Association.

ERRATUM
An item in the May 30 Across Canada ("Eye for an eye", Vol 2 No 10) stated that "Nova Scotia ophthalmologist Dr Dan Belliveau says he has performed surgery on 10 uninsured patients in his private clinic, and he would like the government to pay," implying that Dr Belliveau wished the government to pay for those 10 operations. In fact, the surgeries were refractive corrections, which are never covered under medicare. Dr Belliveau would like the government to pay him to perform cataract surgeries at his private clinic.

For more on insured services at private clinics, see "In private enterprise we (mis)trust"