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James A. Wilson, MD
There is a clock ticking out there for all of us and I don’t mean the one with your name on it that the grim reaper is holding. The BCMJ has published a few submissions in the past few months about the controversy... Read More
Following the lead of Dr A.S. Relman, editor of your competing journal the New England Journal of Medicine,[1] the BCMJ appropriately places a statement on “competing interests” in any published research paper. In... Read More
A recently posted entry on DocLounge (an e-mail discussion group) made mention of the BC Medical Journal and the members of its Editorial Board. The comments unfortunately were quite inappropriate, misleading... Read More
So, what’s so different about this year? Normally, in the first half of August business exigencies remain properly buried and the expected chaos of September consciously ignored. Here it is the dog days of summer, a... Read More
I can clearly remember my grandfather waxing on about the good old days at a time in my life when anything anyone over the age of 20 had to say was something south of boring. My grandfather, however, was persistent, in-... Read More
9 June 2005 At around 6:45 a.m. here on the Pacific Coast, the Supreme Court of Canada proclaimed that a majority of the justices (after 366 days of deliberations) agreed with appellants, Dr Chaoulli and Mr Zeliotis... Read More
I’m not sure if I should be writing this piece. I may look like a techno-nerd (according to my kids and apparently a number of my neighbor’s kids as well), and even though superficially I seem to possess a pretty good... Read More
I remember going through an inventory of needs vs. wants about 10 years ago and deciding that my biggest need was for a drastic change in my professional life before my wants morphed me into some kind of stereotypical,... Read More
A number of weeks ago I answered the phone at home in the middle of dinner knowing that the only people who call at dinner time are telemarketers, pollsters, and family members requesting a return plane ticket from some... Read More
I was intrigued by a recent in-depth investigative analysis and insightful reporting by a small cadre of Vancouver’s brightest TV journalists. Several of these obviously intelligent, occasionally articulate, daily... Read More