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Edited by Christopher H. Fanta, MD, Elaine L. Carter, RN, Elisabeth S. Stied, RN, et al. Whitby, ON: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007. ISBN-10: 0071447377 ISBN-13: 978-0071447379. Paperback, 304 pages. Price: $61.95.

Edited by George Kovacs, MD and J. Adam Law. Whitby, ON: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007. ISBN-10: 0071470050 ISBN-13: 9780071470056. Paperback, 320 pages. Price: $76.95.

The BCMA Board and staff have the responsibility of de­veloping and implementing annual plans that ensure you and your 11000 colleagues receive value for your membership. Like all major or­ganizations, the BCMA’s planning process has multiple steps and re­ceives input from many sources. The foundation for all of our plans is our mission, vision, and values, detailed below. 

Upon that foundation a strategic framework is built; the framework looks out over a 3- to 5-year planning timeframe. The BCMA’s strategic ob­jectives are called key result areas, which currently are:

While today’s BCMJ looks radically different from its earlier incarnation of 50 years ago and is produced on a fully electronic workflow, if you look below the surface you find that the journal’s goals, editorial oversight, and staffing remain essentially unchanged.

People have every reason to be confused about Vancouver’s supervised injection site. It’s been up and running since 2003 and has as many detractors as it has supporters. The only sure thing is the entrenched debate about what it has accomplished, the alleged bias of the medical research, and what goes on inside.