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BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla
July/August 2009
... acknowledged the presence of assistant deputy ministers of health, Dr Stephen Brown and Ms Sheila Taylor, with whom the ... for the Association, especially in regard to delivery of health care in the province. The BCMA has received global ... Mackie, Brian Brodie, Shelley Ross, Ian Gillespie. News&Notes BCMA Annual General Meeting report ...
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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. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Kyle D. Burns, MD, FRCPC,
June 2009
... and postoperative period and entered into a provincial health database. Methods Patients Study subjects were chosen ... 13 ] criteria and was made retrospectively using progress notes. The nurses had been trained in using the confusion ... DSM-IV-TR criteria were met according to the progress notes, if the patient’s CAM rating was positive, or if the ...
News&Notes
December 2008
... the BCMA. There are a great many articles about universal health care, a pressing issue at the time, with strong ... opinions both for and against this new concept in Canadian health care. Along with this come warnings about the dire ... social breakthroughs that were to define the 1960s. News&Notes Time capsule: 1962 through the lens of the BC Medical ...
News&Notes /
BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla
July/August 2008
... solidifying BCMA’s relationship with the government and health authorities. He told members how glad he was to have ... the BCMA was making a $6000 donation for education in the health professions. Dr Appleton encouraged members to get ... Chris Paredes Nicholas Ayling Tuie Cleveland News&Notes 2008 BCMA Annual Meeting: Hidey ho! To Prince George we ...
News&Notes /
BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB,
April 2008
... responsiveness to member needs • Improved physician health and work life • Credible and effective advocacy body that influences health system change They key result areas do not change year ... and media relations • External relations News&Notes 2008–2009 BCMA strategic plan ...
News&Notes
June 2008
... there is a similar process that applies to all other health care practitioners who submit claims to MSP. If ... charges by law enforcement authorities, or both. News&Notes Special Report: Billing Integrity Program ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: H. Davis, MD,
November 2007
... The term TBI is not international, and indeed the World Health Organization notes no consensus with regard to the definition of mTBI.[ 3 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Myles Blank, MD, FRCPC,
April 2007
... stress disorder” in their manual classifying mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early ... traumas, such as covert sexual abuse by a relative. Terr notes that in type I trauma, the memories are likely to be ... private psychologist, psychiatrist, or other infant mental health specialist, or to the Infant Psychiatry Department at ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ralph J. Maddess, PhD
May 2006
... of rural British Columbia has a severe shortage of mental health services. The prevailing attitude is that people ... accept lack of funding for the provision of mental health services by qualified professionals. Furthermore, ... Dr Doug Saunders of the Ontario Psychological Association notes that GPs can find themselves “in over their ...