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News May 2010
A new report released in March by the BC Physician Health Program recommends better workplace arrangements for ... mutually acceptable solutions to ensure maternal and fetal health and well-being. The report notes that in the prevailing medical culture, attending to ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, October 2009
... wish to use more sophisticated tools to capture consult notes in a highly structured template form that can then be ... of the practice (e.g., role of the local and provincial health authorities, nature of patient-provider ... working with a number of these specialists, the regional health authorities, and the PITO Steering Committee to ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2009
... Dr Michael Ramsden, a rheumatologist in New Westminster, notes that “25 rheumatologists from across the pro­vince ... community just didn’t find the value in EMRs until the health au­thority was able to provide the diagnostic and ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2009
... Paperback, 368 pages. $29.95. I recently read A Doctor’s Notes: Taken from both sides of the bedsheets, by Dr Tom ... to fit everything in. Lastly, he poignantly shares his own health struggles, which eventually led to his retirement. ... are many of us. —DRR News Book review: A Doctor’s Notes: Taken from both sides of the bedsheets. ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... was admitted to the unit the night before under a mental health certificate, and I was asked specifically by the ... the police and was subsequently certified under the Mental Health Act of Bri­tish Columbia as to be suffering from a ... not interested in talking to me. Checking the nurse’s notes 4 days after his admission, I saw that he was eating ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD October 2006
... addresses many concerns of the BCMA’s Child and Youth Health Committee (CYHC) and the Council of Health Promotion. [1]  In some respects, it is a repetition ... that properly belonged to government. Hughes perceptively notes that the “child welfare system has been buffeted by ...
News / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2006
... program. This includes developing a basic and emergency health care program for the games and the doping control ... a school-based pilot project to deal with mental health issues affecting youth. He is a recipient of the CMA ... being the most famous). However, in the same breath she notes that the pendulum may have swung a little too far in ...
Premise / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2006
... with them. For them he wrote wonderfully whimsical, loving notes, anecdotes, and memoirs. “With children, Osler had ... us teach medical students, residents, fellows, and other health professionals. Our students nourish us as much as we ...
Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... one has to consider some basic facts. First, the present health delivery system in Canada is a scandal. That patients ... fierce advocate for their patients. Last, the demands for health care are finite, and the small group of very sick ... a right-wing think tank in Vancouver. The author notes the apparent “lack of regard for patients’ needs” ...
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