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News January/February 2021
Mr Danial Ressl Ms Gabrielle Wong Doctors of BC has awarded its two annual $1000 scholarships to Mr Danial ... amateur musician. One day he hopes to join the Doctors of BC community as a physician, to follow in the footsteps of ... Big Sisters. She is deeply appreciative of Doctors of BC for their support of her future pursuits. For more than 15 ...
News, COVID-19 January/February 2021
This document from the BCCDC and the BC Ministry of Health provides recommendations for primary ... at www.bccdc.ca/Health-Professionals-Site/Documents/BC_COVID_primarycare_outpatient_mgmt.pdf . News COVID-19 ...
News, COVID-19 January/February 2021
The Vaccine Evaluation Center (VEC) at BC Children’s Hospital is seeking health care workers’ ...
News January/February 2021
... of Indigenous-specific racism in emergency departments in BC, and in the provincial health care system. The report is ... the investigation and is available at https://engage.gov.bc.ca/addressingracism . Turpel-Lafond is senior associate ... of British Columbia. News Addressing racism in the BC health care system: Investigation findings ...
News January/February 2021
... services their doctor may provide. Approximately 70% of BC family doctors who provide longitudinal care to their ... is a not-for-profit organization supported by Doctors of BC and the British Columbia Ministry of Health through the ...
News January/February 2021
... Committee, a joint collaboration between Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health, published and revised several BC Guidelines. New guidelines: Appropriate Imaging for Common ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... the chain of office and became president of Doctors of BC on 11 December 2020. He spoke with BCMJ editor Dr David ... youth psychiatry to health systems work with Doctors of BC. How do we get more specialists with your training? It’s ... dozens of new child psychiatrists just to meet demand in BC, and we only train a handful a year. We’ve also ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC January/February 2021
... COVID-19 pandemic, sweeping measures were implemented in BC, such as closing nonessential services and reducing ... range of effects stemming from the response measures, BC public health leaders established the Unintended ... October 2020, there were 1232 illicit overdose deaths in BC compared to 263 deaths due to COVID-19.[ 5 , 6 ] Resources ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Harry Karlinsky, MD, FRCPC January/February 2021
... a prescription pad” workshops to physicians throughout BC to assist in the management of patients with noncancer ...
Council on Health Promotion, COVID-19 / BY: Johanna Trimble January/February 2021
... is the average time residents live in long-term care in BC. Strict restrictions condemn our loved ones to a lonely ... deaths but not deaths from loneliness or giving up? The BC Seniors Advocate’s recent report on the effects of ... of all—the residents and their families. Recently the BC government had to replace management in several care homes ...