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Guest editorial--Mental health care in northern, rural, and isolated areas of BC

The idea for an issue that focuses on mental health care in northern, rural, and isolated areas in British Columbia began with an article on health care in general in those areas (BCMJ 2003;45[1]:16). That earlier... Read More

Mental health care in rural and isolated areas: Lessons from northern British Columbia

For nearly 20 years I worked at regular intervals in the far northwestern part of British Columbia—first as a family physician and then as a psychotherapist focusing especially on “trauma-spectrum disorders.” During... Read More

Degree of dissociativity in the inpatient population of a hospital in northwestern British Columbia

The goal of a research project initiated in December 2000 was to determine the level of dissociativity in the inpatient population of the psychiatric unit at Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace (northwestern British... Read More

"Northern, rural, isolated..."

Introduction Dease Lake has the most northern, rural, isolated health care centre in the province, far more isolated than Fort St. John or Dawson Creek. It also happens to be the community that I know best, as far as... Read More