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Letters / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2022
... With this in mind, we strongly recommend that the BC Medical Journal consider publishing only online and cease ... of online medical journals in general, and the fact that Doctors of BC’s services and communications have long been conducted electronically, we suspect that the Doctors of BC membership will quickly adapt to accessing and ...
Letters / BY: BCMJ Editorial Board April 2022
... The small steps that we have taken include: Supporting doctors who wish to read online-only by canceling their paper ... education, medical news, opinion, and resources for BC physicians, and we—along with the majority of our colleagues from around BC—believe that this mission is best accomplished with a ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD April 2022
... while also healing the system in which we operate? Doctors of BC is taking a leadership role to provide physicians with the ... a program to help attach physicians to their own family doctors, a cognitive behavioral therapy skills training ...
News April 2022
... continues to impact rural and remote regions in Northern BC at a disproportionate rate compared with the rest of the ... larger centre through the Patient Transfer Network run by BC Emergency Health Services. The transfer is made to a ... team, pointing out that it is sometimes difficult for doctors in urban centres to understand the situation on the ...
News April 2022
... nature prescription program, an initiative of the BC Parks Foundation driven by health care professionals. Each ... for how to prescribe and log nature prescriptions. Doctors and other licensed health care professionals in BC can now prescribe Parks Canada Discovery Passes to ...
News April 2022
Doctors of BC has released its 2021 Report to Members , with a focus on ... Health Program, by the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, and through divisions of family practice, the Joint ... and affiliated organizations. A full list of all the doctors who served on the association’s many committees in ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Anthony W. Chow, MD, FACP, FRCPC May 2022
In 1980, I wrote an editorial for the BC Medical Journal entitled “The subspecialty of infectious ... Evolution of the Division of Infectious Diseases in BC The University of British Columbia and Vancouver General ... Diseases Society within the BC Medical Association (now Doctors of BC) was established in 2006 and currently has a ...
Letters / BY: Neil Finnie, MD May 2022
... [ BCMJ 2022;64:53-54 ]. The burning reality in BC, and certainly in Victoria, is the astonishing deficiency of family doctors, which has resulted in more than 750 000 ... budget failed to immediately increase funding for family doctors’ low fees. Were there supplemental overhead cost ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) May 2022
While the two leading health crises in BC remain opioids and COVID-19, a third—the declining ... Statistics Canada figures from 2019 indicate that 17.7% of BC residents (897 567) lacked a regular health care ... said, “But we’re dying out here. We just cannot get doctors to come in and take on patient panels right now. . . ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD May 2022
... Improvement team, and in conjunction with the JCCs, Doctors of BC is working to address some of what is broken in our health ... leadership training, and other programs that benefit doctors. And through the support of these initiatives, ...