Letters

I would like to thank Dr Cridland for his comments on my article, “Chronic Disease Rates Cut in Half!” Yes indeed, perhaps I did not go far enough. I do believe that doctors are the most influential... Read More

I commend Dr Ron Wilson for encouraging doctors to practise health promotion in his article “Chronic-disease rates cut in half!” [BCMJ 2016;58:101]. As much as medical practitioners give lip... Read More

Thank you for the review of our article. The PROMs used in the study correlated well with the clinical findings, both the Knee Society score and the Harris hip score, and while parts of those... Read More

The article by Stanger and colleagues on the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in an orthopaedic surgeon’s office [BCMJ 2016;58:82-89] made an unsubstantiated leap from the... Read More

The College appreciates the opportunity to respond to Dr Paul Harris’s letter to the Editorial Board of the BCMJ. We applaud Dr Harris for championing the need to adequately compensate physicians for... Read More