April

1.    A physician reviews each medical report you submit to WorkSafeBC.
(a)    True    
(b)    False

2.    You’ve just encountered an emergency in your office (for example, a worker-patient who is acutely sui-cidal or has cauda equina syndrome). You would:
(a)    Call WorkSafeBC immediately and request an emergency MRI and neurosurgical assessment.
(b)    Treat this patient as you would anyone else in an emergency.
(c)    Note on your Form 11 that you’ll need to speak right away with a WorkSafeBC medical advisor.

Every year when April arrives I like to take stock of things—organize my thoughts (and my life) for the upcoming spring and summer. This April I find this practice particularly timely as my term as president ends next month, and I’d like to share with you a few stories about the past year to give you a sense of the job and what it is like to have the privilege of representing you.

The following physicians have died over the past year; please consider submitting a piece for our “In Memoriam” section in the BCMJ if you knew the deceased well.

Med Access Inc., a Kelowna-based company providing electronic medical record (EMR) services to 2000 specialty and general practice physicians in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario, has been acquired by Telus Health. The acquisition brings the total Telus Health EMR reach to more than 12 500 Canadian physicians, supporting more than 45 million patient interactions each year. Telus Health plans to integrate Med Access’s eReferral platform across all its EMR offerings, while continuing to support the Med Access EMR platform as one of the options available to Canadian physicians.