Now that the ruling body in Canada, the Supreme Court, has decreed that patients should have access to their charts, it is appropriate that steps should be taken to ensure that the law will be upheld... Read More
Letters
A member of the BCMA recently had home office deductions disallowed both on an initial audit and on subsequent appeal. The judgment has cost $5000 a year in additional tax to the member. The tax... Read More
Coming home from the short vacation between the third and fourth year of medical school, I found myself quite ill with a paroxysmal cough that induced a few episodes of post-tussive vomiting. I was... Read More
In the September BCMJ, (2004;[7]:322) under Personal View, you published a letter from a Dr A.M. Krisman in which he offers a simplistic solution to “cream skinners.” Of further... Read More
Thank you [Dr Day] for your editorial in the July/August BCMJ (2004;46:270-271). The present thinking on the health service is on a par with medieval thinking on religious dogma and witches. Any... Read More