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Clinical Articles / June 2000

Physicians and the Internet: A digital view of the future

BY: Alan Brookstone, MD

How will physicians cope with the rising visibility and importance of the Internet in the new millennium? This question is stimulating the development of huge multi-billion-dollar corporations all... Read More

Clinical Articles / June 2000

Dean Cairns on the future of medicine

BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC

The transformation of medicine in BC over the past 100 years and the breakneck pace of change we now find routine ensure that pre-dictions are hazardous, particularly about the future (to paraphrase... Read More

Clinical Articles / June 2000

Humans and bats: Risk, rabies, and the need for respect

BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC, Leila Srour, MD

Rabies—A public health emergency Any possible human exposure to rabies constitutes an emergency, and physicians must be aware of local protocols for accessing rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (RPEP... Read More

Clinical Articles / June 2000

Medicine in the new millennium: Looking back at the future

BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd

I told my Grandma, a very wise woman indeed, that I had been asked to write an article in which I imagine what the next 100 years of medicine might have in store. She laughed and said, “I’ve seen the... Read More

Clinical Articles / June 2000

Patient advocate: To be or not to be?

BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC

Fifty years ago, just as the gas-lit cobbled, streets and brewers’ drays of old London were disappearing, I first entered the wards of a London teaching hospital. There I began listening and talking... Read More

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BCMJ

The BCMJ is a general medical journal that shares knowledge while building connections among BC physicians.

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ISSN 0007‍-‍0556 (Print)
ISSN 2293‍-‍6106 (Online)
Established 1959