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Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
... Looking back I think that whatever other nastiness there may have been, that made it all worthwhile.  In 1988 you ... the aspirations of the membership.    Is there a health issue that you think is not getting enough attention—either ... Q&A with Dr Charles Webb: Doctors of BC President 2015–16 ...
Letters / BY: John Stewart, MBBS, July/August 2015
... puzzled by the full-page advertorial that appeared in the May issue of the  BCMJ  [2015;57:152]. First, what does the neologism ...
News / BY: H. Douglas Cooper, MD, May 2015
By Eric Topol, MD. New York: Basic Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0-465-05474-9. Hardback, 364 pages. $32. You may already be familiar with this book but, if not, I urge ... into three sections. The first section deals with the issue of who is in charge of health care information. Here ...
Letters / BY: Brian Winsby, MD November 2015
I read the letter to the editor in your September issue titled “ MSP: Changes to compensation for teaching ” [ BCMJ  2015;57:275] with great concern as it contained some significant factual errors that may cause unnecessary confusion among Doctors of BC members. ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... with Type 1 Diabetes” was published in the June 2012 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  ( BCMJ  2012;54:232-237 ... full implementation scheduled for the start of the 2014–2015 school year. One highly anticipated change will be ... examples of independent plans and other documents that may be of assistance to parents. Further details regarding ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly  Saturday, 31 May 2014 • Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver This year’s ... carried that there be no increase in membership dues for 2015). Salaries and benefits made up just under 60% of ... clarified that the increase came largely from a severance issue that occurred, not primarily from hiring new staff. Dr ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
Lynn Holden, MD (UBC 1974) killed herself on 1 December 2015. She was 67 years old. Her family remembers her as a ... to themselves. In some situations the exhausted physician may even consider the symptoms to be a mark of heroism, of ... cowardliness in the line of fire) is a legitimate health issue. Monday, 10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day. ...
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