Obituaries /
BY: Rochelle Farquhar
December 2020
... Gold Medal for Distinguished Medical Service by Doctors of BC in 2011. He was a member and president of the Probus Club ...
Editorials /
BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM)
December 2020
... Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia was rendered in BC Supreme Court following 11 years of litigation. The ... Vancouver Sun reported on 15 September 2020 that 17% of BC residents (780 000) do not have a family physician, ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 /
BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD
December 2020
... I am grateful to live in this beautiful province we call BC, and I am grateful to the Indigenous peoples, for it is ... recoup, and re-energize. —Matthew C. Chow, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment COVID-19 Greetings from my ...
News
December 2020
... twice a year in remote communities on Cortes Island in BC. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr Ali is also a ... biography, visit https://fafm.cfpc.ca/fpoy-2020 . News BC’s top family physician of 2020 ...
News, COVID-19
December 2020
The BC Ministry of Health plans to launch a centralized PPE ... contacts can be found in a memorandum on the Doctors of BC website at ...
News
December 2020
The Doctors of BC Report to Members 2019–20 was released in late November ... . News Released: Doctors of BC’s new Report to Members ...
News
December 2020
The BC government is implementing its Hospital at Home program across BC over the next few months to provide acute care services to ...
News
December 2020
The Rural Coordination Centre of BC’s Rural Site Visits project is compiling details about ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Kelsey D.M. Kozoriz, MSc, MD, CCFP
December 2020
... and diet supports for some patients.[ 5 ] HealthLink BC also offers telephone and email support with registered ...
Premise /
BY: H.M.K. McGillivray, BSc
December 2020
... detection leading to a better prognosis. The costs The BC Ministry of Health will spend approximately $21 billion in ... as the demand for diagnostic imaging is increasing. In BC alone, funding for MRI scans was recently increased by 20% ... over time. Currently there are five PET/CT scanners in BC: four are at BC Cancer’s sites (Vancouver, Victoria, and ...