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News / July/August 2014

Emergency Medicine wins advocacy award

The Doctors of BC Section of Emergency Medicine has been selected as the recipient of the Dr Alan Drummond Advocacy Award for 2014 in recognition of the section’s ongoing efforts to inform the public... Read More

News / July/August 2014

Celebrating medical women leadership

Since its founding in 1924, the Federation of Medical Women in Canada (FMWC) has supported and fostered women in the profession of medicine and the health of women in general. The FMWC founded the... Read More

Council on Health Promotion / July/August 2014

How to best treat the patient with multimorbidities

By: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP

“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.” —William Osler Multimorbidity is the new normal in hospital. It seems almost... Read More

Billing Tips / July/August 2014

Audit tip: Locum agreements

By: Keith J. White, MD

Thinking of hiring a locum? Here’s how to comply with the Medicare Protection Act and avoid problems later. The practitioner number belonging to the physician who personally provided the insured... Read More

Assortment of antibiotics, over prescription of antibiotics
BC Centre for Disease Control / July/August 2014

Antibiotic resistance: A global threat to public health

By: Sophie Y. Wang, BSc,, Diana George, MSc,, Dale Purych, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc

Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern that threatens the effective treatment of infectious diseases.[1] A recent report published by the World Health Organization on the global surveillance of... Read More

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BCMJ

The BCMJ is a general medical journal that shares knowledge while building connections among BC physicians.

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ISSN 0007‍-‍0556 (Print)
ISSN 2293‍-‍6106 (Online)
Established 1959