October 2012

BC Centre for Disease Control

TB in foreign-born patients

Clinical Articles

Measurement of blood pressure: New developments and challenges

Assessing and managing resistant hypertension

Blood pressure targets for hypertension: What’s the evidence?

Diagnosis of hypertension and lifestyle modifications for its management

Guest editorial: Assessing and managing hypertension

Council on Health Promotion

Emergency medical services: A new subspecialty on the horizon

College Library

Evidence: A systematic approach

Editorials

Going for gold: A case for physician coaches

Mentors

Family Practice Services Committee

New Practice Support Program module on child and youth mental health launches across BC

Letters

CMA annual meeting concludes in Yellowknife

In-hospital post-op visits by surgeons and GPs

Kudos

New health promotion idea: Discourage car travel

Re: Focus on health, not weight

Re: Quality of death

MDs To Be

Physician health: A review of lifestyle behaviors and preventive health care among physicians

News

Insurance: Time for a beneficiary designation checkup

J.H. MacDermot Prize winner for 2011: Mr Andrew Provan

Mr Paul Straszak joins BCMA as chief negotiator

SGP billing update: E-mail correction

3D breast screening: A BC first

BC researchers identify oral cancer markers

Obituaries

Dr Roger Hayward Rogers

Premise

A critique of the Breast Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment Clinic

A critique of the Breast Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment Clinic: The authors respond

President's Comment

Decisions are made by those who show up

Proust for Physicians

Proust questionnaire: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD

WorkSafeBC

Physiotherapy and massage for injured workers: Who gets covered?