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An Indigenous health care worker talks to an Indigenous patient while holding medication.
President's Comment / September 2025

Honoring truth and pursuing reconciliation: The physician’s role in healing beyond the clinic

BY: Charlene Lui, MD

Dr Charlene Lui In Canada, 30 September is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. For Indigenous Peoples, it is a symbolic day—a collective acknowledgment of historical trauma,... Read More

A doctor talks to a person holding a baby.
Editorials / September 2025

Beyond Kelowna: A wake-up call for child health in British Columbia

BY: Kristopher T. Kang, MD

For many of us, the closure of the pediatric inpatient unit at Kelowna General Hospital in May 2025 did not come as a surprise. Pediatricians in the region had been raising concerns about safety and... Read More

A person plants a tree.
Editorials / September 2025

Tools to address anti-Indigenous racism in health care

BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC

It is said that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is today. September is our reminder to reflect and recommit to learning about the ongoing impacts of... Read More

Letters / September 2025

Library services for BC family physicians

BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS,

I read with interest Dr Faye MacKay’s excellent letter to the editor in the May issue of the BCMJ [2025;67:127]. Dr MacKay was justifiably distressed over the abrupt closure of the College of... Read More

Letters / September 2025

Re: Is medicine a calling? Or a career?

BY: Alexander E. Nataros, MD, CM, CCFP

This was an excellent editorial [BCMJ 2025;67:157]. I would offer that another key contributor to physician burnout is a disconnect from community needs due to unnecessarily bureaucratic and often... Read More

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BCMJ Volume 67 Number 10 cover.

BCMJ

The BCMJ is a general medical journal that shares knowledge while building connections among BC physicians.

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ISSN 0007‍-‍0556 (Print)
ISSN 2293‍-‍6106 (Online)
Established 1959