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Obituaries / BY: Gillian Hodge, MD January/February 2024
... He took up a position in Bella Bella, a small island on BC’s Central Coast, in the R.W. Large Memorial Hospital ... of times a year, on his own time, to the remote northwest BC communities of Iskut, Dease Lake, and Telegraph Creek, ... both with advice and financially. At one time he and BC friends cooperated in gathering secondhand wheelchairs, ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2024
... new. While practising family medicine in the North of BC in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I was asked to explain ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2024
... there were 263 surgeons: 184 male and 79 female.[ 1 ] BC lags behind the rest of Canada in terms of the number of ... surgeons were in full-time practice at hospitals in BC, which was 74 less than the Canadian average of 232.[ 2 ] ... was projected that 260 general surgeons would be needed in BC by 2022. The purpose of this study was to compare the ...
News March 2024
Did you know that Doctors of BC offers members an Extended Health and Dental plan? The ... current monthly premiums, please log into the Doctors of BC website and, in the Member Area, select Insurance, Health ... eligible for the Cost Plus feature.  Visit the Doctors of BC website at www.doctorsofbc.ca for additional information. ...
Letters / BY: Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, FRCSC March 2024
... tourism disguised as CME. Primum non nocere. I suggest BC physicians refuse this type of CME. —Douglas J. ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC March 2024
... Vancouver This letter was submitted in response to “BC has the tools to address the drug poisoning emergency. Do ... to use them?” Read the author’s response in “Re: BC has the tools to address the drug poisoning emergency. Author replies.” Letters Re: BC has the tools to address the drug poisoning emergency (1) ...
Letters / BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP March 2024
... the following misrepresentation from the November 2023 BC Coroners Service Death Review Panel report[ 1 ] in his ... 25 000. That is the approximate number of people in BC being prescribed opioid agonist therapy—primarily ... illegal drug use, which was then retroactively applied to BC. The resulting statistic was of such uncertain accuracy ...
Letters / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2024
... in the weeks since publication of this editorial, a new BC-based study has been released showing decreased drug ... The number of people at risk of illicit drug poisoning in BC is large, and estimates of this heterogenous population ... For example, using linked health data sources, a team of BC researchers identified a provincial cohort of people with ...
News March 2024
... and pediatric allergist Dr Edmond Chan and his team at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute found SLIT to be ...
Obituaries / BY: Al Kallas, MD March 2024
... and adventures, often involving the BCMA (now Doctors of BC). Jim was also on the board of Pacific Blue Cross and was ...