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Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Stephen Lam, MD, FRCPC April 2023
... of evidence and health economic analyses,[ 12 , 13 ] the BC Ministry of Health announced the implementation of the ... lung screening program in Canada. In May 2022, the BC Cancer Lung Screening Program began conducting low-dose ... and complete a detailed risk assessment with the screening centre navigators to confirm their eligibility. A fax ...
News April 2023
... your family if things don’t go as planned.  Doctors of BC has partnered with Johnson Insurance, which offers MEDOC ... interruption, for unlimited trips per year. Doctors of BC members may purchase MEDOC Travel Insurance regardless of ... trip knowing that the multilingual MEDOC claims assistance centre is available 24/7 to direct you to the nearest medical ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Carol-Anne Vallée, MD May 2023
... morbidity and mortality in women of reproductive age. In BC, between 1963 and 1970, up to 27% of direct obstetric ... most densely populated urban areas.[ 5 , 9 ] In 2010, a BC study noted that urban abortion care was offered by seven ... 10 ] Since 1997, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in Vancouver has provided provincial leadership in ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD April 2023
... times during the talk to give us time to breathe and centre ourselves as we learned of inexorable changes related ... of single-day deaths from any public health emergency in BC occurred on the day Lytton reached an all-time national ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kali Sedgemore April 2023
... under 19 years of age died of illicit drug poisoning in BC.[ 1 ] Deaths are a result of increasing toxicity of the ... youth, this means rapid access to treatment. Youth across BC face many barriers to accessing harm reduction and ... ). BC Centre for Disease Control Supporting BC youth at risk of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Samantha Gibbon, BSc April 2023
... student, I see a need for cultural support for our fellow BC physicians as the pressures of providing care for more and ... Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in BC Health Care —make it clear that there is a great need ... identity.[ 8 ] BOX 3. Patient resources. BC Crisis Centre https://crisiscentre.bc.ca Toll free: 1 800 SUICIDE (1 ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Amritpal Maniani, BSc April 2023
... as of 31 January 2023.[ 6 ] A coordinated effort by the BC Centre for Disease Control and the BC Ministry of Health has led to the creation of the ...
News / BY: Geoffrey McKee, MD, MPH June 2023
... Health Authority, regional health authorities, and the BC Centre for Disease Control, the survey asks about physical ... MD, MPH Medical Director, Population and Public health, BC Centre for Disease Control    News BC’s largest ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Anton R. Miller, MBChB, FRCPC June 2023
... are threefold: (1) to raise awareness among physicians in BC of the vital role that family support and navigation can ... with neurodisability and their families currently work in BC and has been aimed at improving the status quo through ... representation from the affiliated academic health centre, government (BC Ministry of Children and Family ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Patricia M. Massel, MD June 2023
... are transported to hospitals by air ambulance within BC, and countless others travel privately to urban centres for outpatient care.[ 1 ] Northern BC is particularly remote, and reaching tertiary-level ... then discharged without shoes or wallets from an urban centre hundreds of kilometres away from their community. One ...