President, College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia
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Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD
The College would like to thank Dr Holtby for his submission to the BCMJ regarding the quality of information provided by a referring physician on behalf of their patient. While physicians seldom raise this as... Read More
The College would like to thank Dr Holtby for his submission to the BCMJ regarding the quality of information provided by a referring physician on behalf of their patient. While physicians seldom raise this as... Read More
The College remains very concerned about the circumstances of people who are unable to access a primary care physician. However, the College’s legal authority and mandate are limited to the conduct and performance of... 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 the time needed to... Read More
On behalf of the College, I applaud Dr Alan Ruddiman for his courage and leadership in expressing his personal view on the current opioid crisis in his thoughtful piece, “Opioid prescribing: The profession and the... Read More
The College appreciates the opportunity to respond to a letter regarding its professional standard, Marijuana for Medical Purposes. According to the Health Professions Act (HPA), the role of the College is to establish... Read More
The College fully appreciates the difficulty in treating patients with medical conditions or symptomatology for which an effective treatment cannot be found, or for which the patient is unable to pay. Safe... Read More
The development of this or any other professional standard is not “unprecedented.” The College has a statutory obligation to set standards for medical practice, and most elements contained in the standard on safe... Read More
Safe Prescribing of Drugs with Potential for Misuse/Diversion was developed over the past year as an evolution to a previous document entitled Prescribing Principles, which failed to prevent an increasing toll of... Read More