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Closure of the College Library

I strongly urge Doctors of BC to fill the horrific gap created by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s financial risk management strategy of closing the College Library. Closing the library demonstrates a... Read More

Interactions between primary care management systems, IT, and patient care

My feedback about primary care intervention programs and incentives, originally provided to my local division of family practice, is included below. It reflects the evolution of our system’s requirement to be seen to... Read More

Dealing with wounded minds

I really appreciate rural colleague Dr Larsen Soles’ comments on this elephant in the room [“How do you deal with a wounded mind?” BCMJ 2017;59:349]. I was a sessional, then contract GP psychiatrist for 20... Read More

EHRs and burnout (a.k.a. early retirement)

A recent article in the Globe and Mail, included in a Doctors of BC newsflash, led me to write about electronic health records (www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/doctors-using-electronic-records-at-... Read More