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Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2022
... must be learners and active participants in decolonizing BC’s health care system, returning the right to access ... leadership. Across facilities and communities in BC, doctors are also leading initiatives and projects through ... care closer to home Indigenous populations in rural BC communities face significant barriers to accessing quality ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Veronic Clair, MD, PhD, CCFP, FRCPC May 2022
... for swift, coordinated actions.[ 1 ] The situation in BC is similar. It is time for BC and Canada to create comprehensive strategies for child ... use (CYMHSU), emphasizing prevention. In 2018, one in six BC youth seriously considered suicide in the prior year, one ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee May 2022
Recently, two novel agents have become available in BC for the treatment of COVID-19 in mild to moderately ill ... to include all symptomatic COVID-19 individuals in BC who are at increased risk of severe illness and ... causes less-severe disease than Delta and nearly 90% of BC adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine, patients who ...
Obituaries / BY: Young Family June 2022
... Hospital. In 1953 he began general practice in Hope, BC, as one of only two doctors in the town, later moving down ...
Obituaries / BY: Mary Conley, MD June 2022
... When Gail retired in 2008, she and Naren moved to Sidney, BC, but they were continually on the move. Winters were spent ...
Letters / BY: Barbara Macleod, MD June 2022
... as a family physician for 45 years, mostly in Nanaimo, BC. I agree with Dr Day’s editorial in the March issue of ... get proper medical care. I am frustrated with the several BC governments that have not done anything to address these ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB June 2022
... and rising overhead costs are all factors causing many BC physicians’ morale to drop, not only full-service ... their own offices. A number of years ago, Doctors of BC (then the BCMA), set an hourly rate (currently $160) ... the growing number of unattached patients. As Doctors of BC and the BC government negotiate a new Physician Master ...
President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD June 2022
... and no longer will we accept the status quo. Doctors of BC is committed to doing the right thing when times are ... play a pivotal role in formulating solutions. Doctors of BC continues to advocate strongly on these fronts—directly ... realize that the divisions are funded by Doctors of BC and the BC government, as part of the Physician Master ...
News June 2022
Business Pathways is a new program from Doctors of BC dedicated to helping members navigate the operational side ...
News June 2022
... to gauge how well the journal is meeting the needs of BC doctors. We conduct these surveys approximately every 5 ... place for learning about what is happening in medicine in BC (76% agree). This survey shows that the BCMJ ’s niche is BC medicine—it’s where members feel the journal is the ...