While attending the St. Paul’s Hospital CME Conference for Primary Care Physicians in November 2015, I realized that it had been a long time since my last educational meeting—aside from our monthly... Read More

We have survived (perhaps the wrong word) the fall season of CME. It can be exhausting trying to amass the number of CME credits required to stay registered before the end of the calendar year, but I... Read More

Media is often attracted to the bad-news stories, especially in the area of health care, so it is important to highlight the noteworthy work being done by physicians on the front lines—work that not... Read More

In 2016 physician-assisted death will become legal in Canada. Studies of general public knowledge about refusing or withdrawing life-sustaining therapy[1,2] suggest people may be confused about their... Read More

Thank you to Drs Chan, Hwang, and Karimuddin for a well-researched article on the state of wait lists in BC [BCMJ 2015;57:341-348]. However, the data from the Surgical Patient Registry (SPR) are... Read More