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Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2021
In BC, doctors have a unique opportunity to get involved with ... (JCCs)—a first-of-its-kind partnership in Canada between Doctors of BC and the BC government. The JCCs bring together doctors, ...
Letters / BY: Brenda Hardie, MD June 2021
... to start, and is evidence-informed. Maybe we will see Doctors of BC promote this more widely. Doctors of BC could also be targeting and measuring its ...
Letters / BY: Rita K. McCracken, MD, PhD, CCFP (COE), FCFP June 2021
... it?” And I urge our professional representative body (Doctors of BC) and our main payer (BC Ministry of Health) to (1) engage experts to do a review ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB June 2021
... is built.” Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson of the BC Supreme Court made this statement in November 2005. This ... written decision was unusually lengthy. Like for many doctors, my courtroom experience has mostly been as an expert ... BC physician as an expert. They focused on demonizing doctors for not accurately “triaging” patients and ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD June 2021
... cannot claim any prescient ability, what I do know is that doctors—wherever you are and whatever you do—will have ... The 2019–2022 Physician Master Agreement between Doctors of BC and the government will end on 31 March 2022. Formal ...
News / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD June 2021
Dreamers, Skeptics, and Healers: The story of BC’s medical school By Wendy Cairns; John Cairns, MD; David ... considerable anxiety that there was no medical school in BC, and that the likelihood of one opening soon was not very ... book includes wonderful pictures of many of the doctors, healers, scientists, and administrators who made the ...
News / BY: Hali Stus June 2021
... of the licensed, noncommissioned insurance advisors with Doctors of BC, I meet with physicians every day to talk about ... you can use the money to pay down debt or top up savings. Doctors of BC offers a group term plan that is available to ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD July/August 2021
... and they all seem to want the same basic things. And doctors are no different. Doctors are people, after all. Perhaps this is why I feel so ... from the Office of the Provincial Health Officer, to the BC Centre for Disease Control, to laboratories and testing ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD July/August 2021
... reported significant improvement in the medical care of BC seniors who are in long-term care facilities since it was ... set up in response to a decline in the number of family doctors and most-responsible providers working in long-term ... of family practice, the LTCI supports local family doctors to design and implement community solutions that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... The Specialist Services Committee, a partnership of Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health, provided funding for time ... Authority Physician Quality Improvement Program and the Doctors of BC Specialist Services Committee. Competing ...