Author profile

$9 million per year

I noticed that senior BC civil servants were recently given substantial raises to make their salaries competitive. This logic brings to mind one issue that has not been mentioned in discussions about deficiencies in our... Read More

Physician-computerphiles

I enjoyed PMR’s editorial and exhortation to do a history and physical [“Back to basics,” BCMJ 2007;49:530]. Her des­cription of a “young emergency physician” who did not examine any patients for 3 to 4 hours whilst... Read More

Re: Patient safety

I was surprised to see in the September issue of the BCMJ that there was not more in the way of concrete specifics about the causes of or solutions to medical errors (theme issue: How do we improve patient safety?).... Read More

Re: Status quo—not an option

See responses to this letter In JAW’s editorial (BCMJ 2006;48[1]:4-6) and G.F.O. Tyers’s letter (BCMJ 2006;48[4]:163), the only possibly factual information given was that only Canada and North Korea... Read More