May

Here’s how you can help

Research shows that workers who are injured on the job, particularly those with soft-tissue injuries, recover faster and more successfully when they return to work as soon as safely possible. Helping your patients maintain a bond with their workplace can assist—not interfere with—your efforts to resolve their clinical issues.

The easiest and most efficient way to reform primary care is to develop and implement a service agreement between physicians, patients, and the Ministry of Health.

Wave 2 of the BCMJ readership study was completed in January (Wave 1 was completed in 2001). Results are consistent with 2001, with the Journal receiving very strong physician support:

Of the boons vouchsafed to humanity, the discovery and development of penicillin is one of the greatest. That golden era has passed and few, if any, new discoveries are in prospect. Dr Patrick and his colleagues (BCMJ 2004;9:472) in his report from the BC Centre for Disease Control, has expressed his concern that the beneficial effects of the antibiotics are being lost due to ill-advised usage.

I remember going through an inventory of needs vs. wants about 10 years ago and deciding that my biggest need was for a drastic change in my professional life before my wants morphed me into some kind of stereotypical, high-earning, voraciously consuming North American Yuppie Boomer.