As high-quality medical information becomes more readily available online, straightforward clinical questions can often be addressed quickly. Point-of-care tools offer simple interfaces to current, evidence-based guidance for clinical decision making. The College Library offers two tools, BMJ Best Practice and First Consult, while another tool, UpToDate, is available from most BC health authority libraries and the provincial Divisions of Family Practice office.
If you receive fee-for-service payments from MSP, a Mini-Profile (a statistical analysis of your billings for that calendar year) will be generated for you annually. So why should you read it?
The Mini-Profiles are made available by Doctors of BC to all physicians billing MSP so that physicians can see if their billings are within the normal statistical boundaries of their peer group, which is determined by the type of services a physician was paid for during that year. This provides physicians an opportunity to identify potential billing issues that may require correction.
Fentanyl-detected illicit drug overdose deaths in British Columbia increased dramatically from 5% of total illicit drug deaths in 2012 to over 25% in 2014.[1] While clusters of fentanyl-detected deaths have been reported in Canada and the US,[2] these recent deaths represent an emerging public health concern in BC.
In 1700 Dr Bernadino Ramazzini wrote De Morbis Artificum Diatriba, and he is often considered the father of modern occupational medicine. Despite being born, raised, and trained in Dr Ramazzini’s home country of Italy, I cannot recall any of my 180 classmates ever mentioning or even considering occupational medicine (Medicina del Lavoro) as a career.
