May

I still remember the first time I spoke with Dr Clark, 35 years ago. It was over the phone and I had never in my life heard such an intelligent, relaxed, and effortlessly comprehensive stream of human communication. He was so cool. I recall wondering whether I could ever be like that (I couldn’t).

Dr Douglas Grant died in Lions Gate Hospital on 31 October 2014 following a short illness. Sincere thanks to the palliative care team at Lions Gate Hospital on 7W. 

The Divisions of Family Practice recently launched a new Quality Improvement Toolkit on the Divisions of Family Practice website. The toolkit is a guide to getting started, planning your improvements, implementing your ideas, and sustaining your improvement efforts, and it explains how to integrate QI techniques into your everyday work. It offers resources, videos, tools, and templates that cater to users at all levels of experience—those learning the basics, looking for practical tools, or creating strategies to engage a team and build project momentum.

The Personalized Onco-Genomics (POG) program at the BC Cancer Agency is a clinical research program bringing genomic sequencing directly into patient care for those with incurable cancers. POG was launched in 2012, and more than 170 patients have taken part to date. 

You are probably familiar with term life insurance, which provides coverage for a specified period such as 10 or 20 years. Odds are that you’ll cancel or outlive your term-life policy and a benefit will never be paid. In contrast, permanent life insurance covers you for life and is guaranteed to pay a benefit.