December 2020

BC Centre for Disease Control

Implementing saline gargle sample collection for COVID-19 testing

Clinical Articles

Lyme carditis: A can’t miss diagnosis

Council on Health Promotion

Impacts of food security on nutrition

Editorials

Private health care will never disappear—it is hardwired into human nature

Gloom season and social isolation

MDs To Be

The potential use of telemedicine to increase access to opioid agonist therapy in rural and remote communities

Using the beneficence model as an ethical approach to surgical decision making: A case report

News

BC’s top family physician of 2020

Centralized PPE distribution system for doctors

New temporary fees for providing flu shots to adults

Urgent need for long-term aftercare of post-ICU COVID-19 patients

Social isolation puts women at higher risk of hypertension

Released: Doctors of BC’s new Report to Members

New Hospital at Home fees

Virtual care technology to help patients prep for surgery

Data migration support for Wolf EMR retirement

RCCbc online rural innovations inventory to foster collaboration

Obituaries

Donald James Farquhar, 1933–2020

Theodore (Ted) Tomas Thordarson, 1931–2020

Premise

From diagnostics to theranostics, and why better cancer care will always be costly

President's Comment

Greetings from my family to yours