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Letters / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2025
... suspect that soldiers despise the effects of war, just as health care providers hate disease. As health care workers, we treat the sick and injured; that is ...
Letters / BY: Charles Krieger, MD, PhD, FRCPC April 2025
... and Lee for their informative and important letter on health care system digitization using the Cerner electronic health record (EHR) system.[ 1 ] The points raised in the ... suggestions for improvement. This topic is important to health care in British Columbia and requires much more ...
Original Research / BY: Jennifer Kask, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2025
... ProbeTec CT/GC Q x vaginal swabs (the type used in Island Health) have a sensitivity of 99.3% and 99.5% and a ... ] SAVS also have a lower lifetime cost, because visits to health professionals are reduced.[ 9 ] High levels of patient ... at least 2003.[ 4 ] They have been available in sexual health clinics and clinician offices on northern Vancouver ...
Premise / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC May 2025
... even fatal, side effects. The National Institutes of Health Genetic Testing Registry now maintains a database of ... likely some of this work will eventually bear fruit.  Health care system In 2000, I predicted that BC health care would come to be provided in a setting of more ...
News May 2025
... their practices more efficiently, optimize their use of health care technology, and effectively manage their patient ... EMR system. FPSC staff collaborated with the Ministry of Health’s Healthy Living and Health Promotion Branch on the Lifetime Prevention Schedule ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM May 2025
... of CSG viruses is available through the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory by send-out testing. Both serology and ... specimen?  All samples should be sent to the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory using the Zoonotic Diseases & Emerging ... clusters of infections are reportable to the local medical health officer in BC. A more detailed investigation of cases ...
News May 2025
... Act to help ease the administrative burden on BC’s health care practitioners by clarifying when it is ... practitioners, and may also consider notes from other health professionals. The regulations will be implemented ... As a result of a partnership with Doctors of BC and Health Quality BC, changes are being implemented related to ...
President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD May 2025
... little support, few resources, and limited influence on health care policies. Their goal was to ensure physicians had ... physicians dedicated to influencing real change for the health care system and for patients. This milestone ... needs of its members, the profession, and the health care system. Whether negotiating contracts, advocating ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2025
... advocating for and supporting BC doctors to influence the health care system and create positive change for their ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Bal Hannay May 2025
... lies in how your contact information is shared between Health Insurance BC, the College of Physicians and Surgeons ... WorkSafeBC receives your contact information from Health Insurance BC Health Insurance BC handles the registration of all health ...