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Obituaries / BY: Mary Conley, MD June 2022
... zest for life. She always looked for the good in people, made friends easily, and was full of cheer and good ...
Obituaries / BY: Bruce L. Miller, MD December 2022
... elevating the priority for admission of Indigenous people. Bruce was greatly admired by his peers, and he ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD September 2022
... sacred assets we have—our health—yet most Indigenous people and those from many other cultures likely find the ... in an environment free of racism and discrimination, where people feel safe when receiving services. Cultural humility ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... grew up with. There was a great sense of community, great people. We have always had lovely neighbors. Where’s your ... Ladner Pioneer Library; I used to take out more books than people would think I could read, but medicine was my biggest ... life into the world, delivering babies, and then have people take their last breath with you in a palliative ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD September 2021
... What you want. We need to consider, ask, and learn how people want to be treated. In the same way that I cannot tell ... to describe as it can mean different things to different people, cultures, and generations. I describe it as a pattern of certain behaviors: honorable people keep their word, maintain confidences, tell the truth, ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD March 2021
... there is another reason why listening is so important. People do not want to follow people who don’t listen. It’s a fundamental human need to ... minutes per day to scan through the viewpoints of credible people, then I could get on with my life. I did have a good ...
Obituaries July/August 2021
... a profound effect on me and my family, as she had on many people’s lives. I met Paddy in the early 1990s when we ... for working with the addicted population applied to people in all circumstances. She truly believed in her work ... of procuring plants for her garden. Everywhere we went people knew who she was and of her magnificent gardens. It ...
Obituaries / BY: Vera Frinton, MD December 2021
... Marjorie and Bruce; sons, Elliot and Colin; Joan; the people of Hornby Island; as well as his many friends, will ... was described as a missionary without a religion, and the people of many BC and Northern communities benefited from his ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD July/August 2021
... is learning that, in spite of these uncertain times, people want very similar things in life. It doesn’t matter ... in a similar way. I’ve come across a lot of different people in my life. Young people. Older people. Disadvantaged people. Privileged ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD December 2021
... of burnout in the medical community. It is hard to see the people I care about suffer and toil as you have. And yet, the ... putting others first: “Give our vaccine doses to people more vulnerable, we’ll wait our turn.” I remember ... leaders in our own right, and we are entrusted with people’s very lives. Take heart that even when we are ...