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Editorials / September 2021

The outsized impact of kindness

BY: David R. Richardson, MD

Working in health care leads to a one-sided perspective of the system’s nuances and challenges. By becoming consumers in the system, some of us will experience a different side, which recently became... Read More

Letters / September 2021

Re: Delay in diagnosis and management of adolescent ACL injuries. Authors reply

BY: Lise Leveille, MD, MHSc, Tessa Ladner, BSc, Christopher Reilly, MD

Thank you for your comments on our article [BCMJ 2021;63:211-216]. We agree that a primary care provider should see and examine all adolescents with an acute knee injury. In today’s health care... Read More

Letters / September 2021

Re: Delay in diagnosis and management of adolescent ACL injuries

BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC

I am not surprised by the finding that discrepancies exist in the W0 time between individuals. Further studies on this, as suggested in the article [BCMJ 2021;63:211-216], would be helpful. However,... Read More

Letters / September 2021

The fate of historical documents

BY: Richard N. Merchant, MD, FRCPC

In May 1954, the editor of the Vancouver Medical Association Bulletin wrote, “This issue of the Bulletin is intended to commemorate one of the greatest events in the medical history of British... Read More

Letters / September 2021

Re: Restrictions on private health insurance

BY: Liz Keay, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, PhD

I am disappointed that the BCMJ allows Dr Brian Day (who is on the Editorial Board) to use the journal to advance the issues of his own ongoing litigation [2021;63:197]. This is not the first time he... Read More

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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