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News&Notes / BY: Fred Bass, MD, DSc January/February 2010
... for smokers and fortunately for the tobacco industry, Health Canada has not implemented the findings of recent ... train, and become happy with, their inner alligator. News&Notes Special Feature: Training the inner alligator ...
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 ...
Letters November 2010
... “Marijuana is not approved for use as a drug in Canada. Health Canada states that “no marijuana product has been issued a notice of compliance” and notes that indications, safety and risks have not been ... certain symptoms from which they suffer can apply to Health Canada for authorization to possess and use marijuana ...
News&Notes / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD April 2010
... red hot caldera while dodging flying magma.   Primary health care is delivered from the 40-bed Lenakel Hospital and ... the synergy and conflict that exists with the two views of health in Vanuatu. A young man who lives on a small island ... Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation; 1990. News&Notes Special feature: Mitufala dokta lanem planti long ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, December 2010
... and fortune but to humiliation and poverty. Vancouver’s health: Diagnostic speculation The medical record of the ... entire voyage, and the men arrived home in general good health. Unfortunately the same could not be said for Captain ... he deserved. This article has been peer reviewed. News&Notes Special feature: Captain Vancouver and medicine in the ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2010
... interest in posttraumatic stress disorder, physician health, and medical fitness-to-drive issues.  Dr Gillespie ... He has served on a number of BCMA committees: Physician Health, Council on Health Promotion, the Computer Committee, ... Dr Jack Chritchley Dr Jakob Meyerhoff Dr Linda Warren News&Notes Special Report: 2010 BCMA Annual Meeting ...
News&Notes / BY: Robert Young, MD, June 2010
... ideas. He wanted the BCMA to produce a weekly info/health column for the province’s smaller papers. I did not ... before, and I’m amazed at how much fun it all was. News&Notes Special Feature: Personal development and the BCMA ...
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. ...
News&Notes / 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 ...
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 ...