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President's Comment / BY: Joshua Greggain, MD May 2023
... through celebrations. Then there are our awards—the Doctors of BC Awards. They recognize our colleagues who have made ... showcasing the amazing work and initiatives being done by doctors across the province. May is Doctors of BC’s first ...
Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... 15 ] This is not always done, however. Even in BC, where self-referral is permitted, some women do not ... years of life to lose.[ 40 ] It is important that family doctors encourage women to have screening mammograms because ... cancer screening starting at age 40; however, many family doctors do not know this because of the Canadian Task Force ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... 12 , 13 ] However, there has been no published BC-specific literature since publicly funded telephone ... Care Telephone Interpreting Service Pilot Project by BC family physicians and highlight areas where it may be ... off for patients to use. Additionally, with funding from Doctors of BC, a pilot project conducted in 2023 made this ...
News / BY: Julie Kwan, BBA, CFP, CLU, GBA June 2023
... protections to guard against future cybercrime events.  Doctors of BC’s commercial insurance partner, Westland Group ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2023
Calling all readers: we want to hear from you! The BC Medical Journal is a unique publication—it is the only provincial medical journal in Canada and one of Doctors of BC’s longest-running member benefits. And it is ... are proud and humbled to facilitate communication between doctors of all specialties throughout our beautiful province. ...
President's Comment / BY: Joshua Greggain, MD June 2023
... of mind and being. On display in the main entry of the Doctors of BC office in Vancouver is artwork by Mr Rain Pierre with a caption that reads: “BC doctors walk with all Indigenous patients in the spirit of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Nicola Horwood, MD June 2023
... times for necessary MRIs.[ 3 ] Recent commentaries in the BC Medical Journal raise concerns about unnecessary ... local divisions of family practice and directly from local doctors. It was distributed to orthopaedic surgeons through a ... Be Osteoarthritis imaging: A survey of British Columbian doctors and evidence-based recommendations ...
Obituaries July/August 2023
The following Doctors of BC members died between June 2022 and May 2023. Thank you to ... www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/west-vancouver-bc/andrzej-jakubowski-11144593 Dr Lukas Cornelius Klopper 1 ...
President's Comment / BY: Joshua Greggain, MD July/August 2023
... and I hope that you will too. —Joshua Greggain, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment The stretch from ...
Editorials / BY: Jennifer J. Telford, MD, MPH, FRCPC, CAGF, FACG July/August 2023
... St. Paul’s Hospital since 2004, and I joined the team at BC Cancer in the fall of 2008 to develop the provincial Colon ... for the opportunity to serve as the guest editor of this BC Medical Journal theme issue and have assembled a ... which is a joint endeavor of the BC Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC, discusses early-onset colorectal cancer. There ...