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President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD January/February 2018
... a network as “a group or system of interconnected people or things.” A community is defined as “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP September 2018
... antivaccine movement counters with tales of profits-over-people, conspiracies to control individual freedoms, and ... misses the point: to achieve the goals of healthier people and societies, stories are exactly what we need.  ... and stories in our style to build bridges and appeal to people’s hearts as well as their heads.  And if using our ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP July/August 2018
... passionately about issues while respecting each other as people worthy of belonging. Because no matter our individual ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... overflowing on my desk. I went to medical school to help people, not push paper. Forms for consults. Forms for ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP December 2018
... suicide. The time we spend away from the things we love—people, nature, hobbies—can be both the cause and the ... of BC that cares about us not just as doctors, but as people. An organization that protects family time by ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... do? 1.    Recognize that the health care system and the people it cares for are complex. Complex systems evolve over ... person but not another, or it may cause side effects. How people react to the same infection, treatment, or trauma is ... While we argue about the highest standard of privacy, people willingly give up some of this right daily to interact ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD July/August 2017
... with the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA). Indigenous people are particularly affected by ACEs, and through meeting ... and modified through our medical training. Sometimes the people we work with come from such a different place that we ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD October 2017
... at the national level with other affected small business people. In August, I participated in a delegation that met ... these proposals in a way that is fair for small business people across Canada, including physicians, and for our ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD November 2017
... part an unintended consequence of medical advances helping people live longer. The Canadian Cancer Society tells us ... in four will die of the disease.” However, while more people are getting cancer, more are surviving it as well. As ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD December 2017
... one” as the newest recruit. The others told me, “People in town are really considerate; it won’t be that ...