January/February 2013

BC Centre for Disease Control

Out of Sight and Locked Up Tight: Pediatric pharmaceutical poisoning

Clinical Articles

Appropriate use of CT and MRI in British Columbia

Laparoscopic colon resection: Experience from a community hospital

Council on Health Promotion

Persuading the inactive

Editorials

Keeping professionalism alive and well

The Daveman diet

Family Practice Services Committee

GPSC builds on foundation of collaboration

Letters

Ms Tyzuk responds

Re: Physician health

Rebooting the BCMA

Billing disparity

MDs To Be

Physician tweet thyself: A guide for integrating social media into medical practice

Pressure

News

A new look for BCMA.org

Average surgical wait 17.7 weeks in Canada

BC doctors awarded Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal

BCMA parental leave benefits

Book review: The Research Guide: A primer for residents, other health care trainees and practitioners

Canada’s $537 billion funding gap

Costello wins blog contest

McGregor wins community cancer care award

Teenage girls needed for Canadian HPV study

Obituaries

Dr Henry Stanley Ballon

Dr Larry Raymond Patrick Collins

Dr Peter John Hubner

Dr George Edward Price

President's Comment

Talking about the compensation reopener

Proust for Physicians

Proust questionnaire: Jim Wilson, MD

Specialist Services Committee

BC specialists travel to Cleveland Clinic, one of the world’s foremost medical centres

WorkSafeBC

How to gain speedier access to a specialist