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Council on Health Promotion / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD October 2019
... died after being injured while using a park in Richmond, BC. Seven months later, at the same Richmond park, a toddler ... there is anecdotal evidence of an increase in visits to BC emergency rooms involving injuries sustained at trampoline ... not be considered to be safer than home trampolines.[ 7 ] Doctors of BC will continue to monitor injury prevention ...
Obituaries / BY: Glenn A. Scheske, MD, FRCPC November 2019
... away in the ICU of Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC, on 23 February 2019 at the age of 75. It was ironic, but ... included technology (unless it pertained to cars), doctors making rounds in bicycle shorts, golf, and photo ...
News November 2019
... better prepare and to mitigate violence against them, Doctors of BC has developed a guide with information and resources that ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD November 2019
... and communities were the cornerstone of this process. Doctors were expected to be the all-powerful Oz, dispensing ... Home-based self-monitoring programs under development in BC, such as TEC4home, should help reduce the number of times ... the curtain down, we are still Oz. —Kathleen Ross, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment Has ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD November 2019
... physician burnout is more prevalent and more intense among BC physicians than it has been in the past, and it details ... Fraser Northwest’s primary care network enables doctors to refer patients with mild-to-moderate mental health ... teams can have on reducing physician burnout, and ensuring doctors are freed up to do the work that brought them to the ...
Obituaries / BY: Norman D. Finlayson, MD December 2019
... and one of the few non-physician honorary members of the BC Medical Association (as Doctors of BC was formerly called) died at the age of 89 ... had immense trust and support for their own individual doctors, that was not generally the case for doctors as a ...
News December 2019
Dr Gerald Stewart, past president of Doctors of BC, was one of the first recipients of the CCFP designation. ... medicine in 2018. Dr Stewart is also a past president of Doctors of BC, having served in 1984/1985. For the complete ...
News December 2019
Family doctors and teams can now hear from their patients about ... the survey, initially piloted by 39 clinics throughout BC since 2016. The Patient Experience Tool data can inform ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD December 2019
... creativity.”     —Andy Hargreaves As my year as Doctors of BC President reaches the halfway mark, I am reflecting on my ... and resolving these challenging issues, and learning how Doctors of BC can support their work. Those of us who have ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Sam Bugis, MD December 2019
... patient care. But for the past 2 decades—as BC’s health authorities were regionalized and doctors in hospitals became even busier with capacity and wait-list pressures—doctors and administrators have been challenged to build ...