Dr Verchere practises pediatric plastic surgery at BC Children’s Hospital, and is a clinical professor at the University of British Columbia. In addition to her affiliation with BC Children’s, Dr Verchere is a member of the consultative staff at Vancouver General Hospital (UBC). Dr Verchere’s special medical interests include cleft lip and palate; brachial plexus injuries; pediatric burns; congenital hand, pediatric hand, and facial trauma; and pediatric microsurgery. In her free time Dr Verchere enjoys spending time with her family of boys, gardening, reading, stiltwalking, and sewing.
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Cynthia Verchere, MD
Most of us are now familiar with land acknowledgments: statements made at the beginning of a meeting or event that acknowledge the people and nations who culturally and physically inhabited a territory prior to... Read More
I am rethinking carpe diem (seize the day). We who have a career in medicine have a clear understanding of the long haul—planning years in advance the steps we need to take, where we need to be, who we need to find,... Read More
We inhabit a world where immediately accessible mass communication is almost an expected part of life. The medium is certainly confirmed to be the message, and it’s clear that whoever controls the medium also controls... Read More
We’ve missed so much this year. The directly tragic stories are of families missing loved ones lost to or harmed by the virus, or those suffering from isolation: poverty, loneliness, addiction, and mental illness.... Read More
Most of us could enumerate fairly closely the number of deaths reported to have occurred on 11 September 2001: 2977 victims and 19 hijackers. But our focus on the tragedy would leave us mistaken in our answer. In truth... Read More
Every year across the country there are millions of photos taken and shared at the beginning of the school year, marking the passage of time in a unique scholastic font. This happens in our household every September,... Read More
I feel like I am not unusual in sometimes planning to just shoot off an important or timely email when I have the required 2 minutes, especially when I know I might forget about it or just not get to it later. Just 2... Read More
One of my kids has picked up a hobby for which he sometimes appears on stage, in film, and on TV. Believe me, it is not something we even knew anything about until our family was suddenly in it, and it is both an... Read More
I love gardening. Hands in dirt, sometimes even stinky dirt. There is something so incredibly right about being a respectful human in a yard surrounded by life from a completely different kingdom. It’s quiet, somehow... Read More
For the past 7 or 8 years our extended family has celebrated Christmas without exchanging gifts, except among the kids. Instead, from an idea my dad originated one year when one of our clan was in financial stress, we... Read More