July

Diagnosis
While it’s fairly obvious when workers sustain a moderate or severe brain injury, mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be less obvious.

Shortly after injury, many workers show signs and symptoms that fall into three general categories: cognitive, be­havioral, and physical. A diagnosis of mild TBI can be based on the following:

The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. Here is a version of the questionnaire modified for physicians. Dr David Richardson, BCMJ editor, was good enough to agree to be our first subject.
We will continue to ask individual physicians to complete the questionnaire, but we also encourage you to complete it.

Recent PITO articles[1,2] have focused on PITO’s emerging program to ex­pand support for specialist physician electronic medical record (EMR) and technology requirements. This month’s article focuses on adoption and trends among general practitioners.

2010/2011 BCMA elected officers
Dr Ian Gillespie, President
Dr Brian Brodie, Past President
Dr Nasir Jetha, President Elect
Dr Shelley Ross, Chair, General Assembly
Dr William Cunningham, Honorary Secretary Treasurer

Please see below for more photos of the 2010 AGM.

At the 2010 Annual General Meeting of the UBC Medical Alumni Association the following physicians were presented with awards from the association: Dr Morris Van Andel received the Wallace Wilson award; Drs Dale Stogryn, David Ostrow, and Bill Nel­ems received the Honorary Alumnus award; and Dr Heidi Oetter received the Silver Anniversary award. 

Congrat­ulations to Drs Van Andel, Stogryn, Ostrow, Nelems, and Oetter on receiving these honors.