October 2012

BC Centre for Disease Control

TB in foreign-born patients

Clinical Articles

Assessing and managing resistant hypertension

Blood pressure targets for hypertension: What’s the evidence?

Diagnosis of hypertension and lifestyle modifications for its management

Guest editorial: Assessing and managing hypertension

Measurement of blood pressure: New developments and challenges

Council on Health Promotion

Emergency medical services: A new subspecialty on the horizon

College Library

Evidence: A systematic approach

Editorials

Going for gold: A case for physician coaches

Mentors

Family Practice Services Committee

New Practice Support Program module on child and youth mental health launches across BC

Letters

Re: Quality of death

CMA annual meeting concludes in Yellowknife

In-hospital post-op visits by surgeons and GPs

Kudos

New health promotion idea: Discourage car travel

Re: Focus on health, not weight

MDs To Be

Physician health: A review of lifestyle behaviors and preventive health care among physicians

News

3D breast screening: A BC first

BC researchers identify oral cancer markers

Insurance: Time for a beneficiary designation checkup

J.H. MacDermot Prize winner for 2011: Mr Andrew Provan

Mr Paul Straszak joins BCMA as chief negotiator

SGP billing update: E-mail correction

Obituaries

Dr Roger Hayward Rogers

Premise

A critique of the Breast Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment Clinic

A critique of the Breast Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment Clinic: The authors respond

President's Comment

Decisions are made by those who show up

Proust for Physicians

Proust questionnaire: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD

WorkSafeBC

Physiotherapy and massage for injured workers: Who gets covered?