Following the lead of Dr A.S. Relman, editor of your competing journal the New England Journal of Medicine,[1] the BCMJ appropriately places a statement on “competing interests” in any published... Read More
Letters
With dismay, I read the 2005 Annual Report of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC regarding the Preliminary Review Committee. They have seen fit to publish the name of an MD who... Read More
Although I am 80 years old and retired, my brain occasionally fires up as it did this morning when I heard of another case of “flesh-eating” disease. When I was a child there were no antibiotics,... Read More
I am writing in response to Dr Jack Burak’s excellent article from April 2005 entitled, “BC’s technologically challenged health care system” (BCMJ 2005;47[3]:128). His points are well taken and I... Read More
It is with interest and some disappointment that I read your study by Thommasen and colleagues, “The relationship between physician visits and some quality of life indicators” (BCMJ 2005;47(4):188-... Read More