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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: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS January/February 2017
... with you. RAAs will help you connect with the right people and the appropriate resources at Doctors of BC to get ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS May 2017
... In them, I see the potential for great leaders. I see people very dedicated to family medicine and to providing ...
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 December 2017
... one” as the newest recruit. The others told me, “People in town are really considerate; it won’t be that ...
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: Charles Webb, MBChB January/February 2016
... by physicians on the front lines—work that not enough people know about. In BC physicians are emerging as leaders ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... caregivers provide an estimated 70% to 75% of care to people receiving home care. That translates to roughly 8 ... on any given day. In BC there are approximately 1 million people filling this role, most of whom are caring for a ... family caregivers and, in turn, negatively impacting the people they care for and generating additional pressures on ...