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Face masks, hand sanitizer, and gloves
Editorials / May 2022

Guest editorial: Current approaches to infectious diseases, Part 1

BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC, FACP

Dr Yazdan Mirzanejad Infectious diseases are the most common diagnoses in inpatient and outpatient medicine.[1,2] We are facing many emerging infectious diseases challenges in the... Read More

A heart drawn on a wall is cracked
President's Comment / May 2022

What do we do when our systems are sick?

BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD

Dr Ramneek Dosanjh How do we promote health when our health care system—its design and implementation, structure and policies, and internal operating system—needs dire attention? The very... Read More

A hospital waiting area
Editorials / May 2022

The evolving crisis in primary care

BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM)

While the two leading health crises in BC remain opioids and COVID-19, a third—the declining access to primary care—is rapidly gaining ground. Statistics Canada figures from 2019 indicate that 17.... Read More

A doctor sits at a desk, looking thoughtful
Editorials / May 2022

What about me?

BY: David R. Richardson, MD

The questions my patients ask me have changed subtly over the years. Initially it was “Do you know you look too young to be a doctor?” Then that became “Why are you always so weird?” And lately it’s... Read More

Letters / May 2022

Re: The crisis that COVID-19 exposed, highlighted, and worsened (but did not cause)

BY: Neil Finnie, MD

I read with pleasure Dr Brian Day’s lament about the mounting inadequacies of the hospital, physician, and nursing sectors over recent decades [BCMJ 2022;64:53-54]. The burning reality... Read More

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BCMJ

British Columbia Medical Journal

The BC Medical Journal is a general medical journal published by Doctors of BC. It provides continuing medical education with a focus on evidence-based medicine.

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ISSN: 0007-0556 
Established 1959