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Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS November 2022
... Indigenous communities, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers; the BC Ministry of Health; the First Nations Health Authority; and BC’s other health authorities. How are we getting there? On ... in the unveiling of a commissioned work of art by BC Indigenous artist sɬə́məxʷ Rain Pierre. The Light of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Alessandro Cau, BSc (Hons) November 2022
... to implement such programs in rural and remote regions of BC where access to laboratory services and health care ... barrier for chronic kidney disease patients. In BC, both empagliflozin and dapagliflozin are covered by ...
Letters / BY: Vaclav Hyrman, MD, FRCPC December 2022
... Vancouver This letter was submitted in response to “2020 BC Cancer core medical staff work engagement and burnout ...
Letters / BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP December 2022
I read the recent College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (CPSBC) annual report with some interest, borne of a ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD December 2022
... Registrar and CEO, College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC This letter was submitted in response to “CPSBC ...
Obituaries / BY: Richard James, MD December 2022
... the precursor of the primary care networks that BC health authorities are now trying to establish). He became ... as well as being a great joke teller. He embraced life in BC to the fullest. His passions were boating; gardening; his ...
News December 2022
... treatment and improved health outcomes. Newborn Screening BC, a service of the Provincial Health Services Authority, is ... deficiency. All babies born after 30 September 2022 in BC and Yukon are screened for 27 treatable conditions shortly ... for assessment, testing, and future health care. News BC newborn screening expands ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) December 2022
... the same day the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (CPSBC) surveyed the province’s doctors on a proposed ... an opportunity to examine medicine’s colonial roots in BC. In March 1778, Royal Navy captain James Cook was greeted ... setting the stage for British colonization of present-day BC. In little under a century, the enormous land mass now ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD December 2022
... to lead this change. —Ramneek Dosanjh, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment Reflection, hope, and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC December 2022
... In 2021, 1428 infectious syphilis cases were reported in BC (27.5 per 100 000 population, the highest on record in ... Following zero reported cases of congenital syphilis in BC between 2014 and 2018, 12 cases of congenital syphilis, ... cases of early congenital syphilis,[ 3 ] were reported in BC from 2019 to 2022 quarter 2.[ 1 ] One resulted in ...