The most important piece of legislation in the last 30 years to affect all health professionals was quietly passed by the government in November 2022. Bill 36, now known as the Health Professions and... Read More
Letters
Doctors of BC shares Dr Hsiang’s concerns about the government’s lack of appropriate consultation when developing the Health Professions and Occupations Act. Doctors of BC has been, and continues to... Read More
In their April 2024 BCMJ article [66:80-85], the authors present the Vancouver Chest Pain Rule as a tool to “preserve scarce resources for higher-risk patients while alleviating unnecessary... Read More
The BC Ministry of Health has committed to digitizing the health care system. In 2016, the Island Health Authority pioneered Cerner at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH), transitioning from... Read More
We thank Dr Lenskyj for his thoughtful comments. The evaluation of emergency department patients with chest pain, while improving over the past 2 decades,[1] still has few tools to risk stratify... Read More