December 2014

BC Centre for Disease Control

Local reactions to fourth and fifth dose DaPT-containing vaccine: Distinguishing normal from cellulitis

Billing Tips

Audit tip: The 5-year audit period

Clinical Articles

Acute flaccid paralysis in a child infected with enterovirus D68: A case report

Managing uncertainty in genetic testing: A case report

Postmortem genetic diagnosis of long QT syndrome in a case of sudden unexplained death of a young child: A case report and overview of regional guidelines for genetic testing

Council on Health Promotion

We’ve done a lot of good things this year

Editorials

Brace yourselves

Stigma

Family Practice Services Committee

Your EMR: Why achieve meaningful use level 3?

Letters

Canadian, eh? Reply from the BCMJ

Forms: The noose around our necks

Pull the plug on NOACs? Not so fast

Re: Doctors’ attitudes shifting on physician-assisted suicide

Re: Doctors’ attitudes shifting on physician-assisted suicide. Reply from Dr Cavers

Re: Rise in injury rates for older male motorcyclists

Re: Rise in injury rates for older male motorcyclists: Authors reply

MDs To Be

Clinical clerk birthday note

News

Disability claims refresher

Dr Evan Adams new chief medical officer

Guidelines on inherited high cholesterol

Reduce breast-cancer risk: Five steps plus two actions

Two BC doctors to be inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Vernon doctors’ hockey tournament

Advocacy for Victoria-area children subjected to abuse

Book review: Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships: What Works and What Doesn’t

Breast cancer screening for BC women low

Breast cancer screening recommendations for women who received mantle radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma

Colon Screening Program anniversary

Correction: New oral anticoagulants for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

Obituaries

Dr Agatha Wilford, 1922–2014

Dr Alan Ferguson Johnston, 1927–2014

Dr E. John Wilford, 1921–2014

Dr William James Corbett, 1921–2014

Premise

Measuring and improving quality of care in family practice

On the successes of the BC opioid substitution treatment system, and how we can build upon them

President's Comment

Reflections on the holiday season

Shared Care Committee

Tackling polypharmacy in BC—The Shared Care approach

Physician Spotlight

Dr Sydney Friedman

WorkSafeBC

WorkSafeBC answers your most commonly asked questions