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Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD May 2025
... an important role in providing effective and informed health care decisions in the future.  It gave me the ... the BCMJ group has also encouraged my collaboration with health professionals in my community. As a solo family ...
Premise / BY: A. Wellar May 2025
... Death Review Panel and BC’s Select Standing Committee on Health urgently called for the creation of a coordinated ... substance use system of care.[ 4,5 ] Frontline health care providers agreed and highlighted two critical ... capacity to provide on-demand addiction care by trained health professionals. A reorganization and coordination of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ashini Dissanayake, BSc May 2025
... events such as cultural gatherings, charity runs, and health fairs can circumvent these barriers.[ 6 ] They aim to attract large numbers of people, increase health literacy, and provide culturally and linguistically accessible health care.[ 6,7 ] Studies suggest that community-based ...
Letters / BY: Rashmi Chadha, MBChB, MScCH, CCFP (AM), FASAM May 2025
... the time to use this leadership to communicate about the health impacts of climate change, to contribute to short- and ... potential harms, and to actively make changes in the health care system for the good of our patients and our ... its current impressive leadership[ 1-6 ] by including health care sustainability in publication decisions. ...
Letters / BY: Faye MacKay, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2025
... and provide better care and a huge step backward for BC health care. I would have happily paid more to keep it going, ...
Letters / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc May 2025
... We thank Dr Walter for the question and wish him excellent health!  —David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC Medical Epidemiology Lead for Antimicrobial ... Microbiologist/Infectious Disease Specialist, Interior Health —Lynsey Hamilton, MSc Knowledge Translation and ...
News May 2025
... or resident who advocates for a stronger and better health care system through leadership and grassroots advocacy ...
Original Research / BY: Amrish Joshi, MBBS, MSc Pal Med, LLM, CCFP (PC), FCFP, FRCPC June 2025
... West, decision making happens through discussions with the health care team and is built upon patient autonomy.[ 4 ] In ... crucial, especially in the context of integrating Western health care practices with those of the South Asian diaspora. ... structured framework developed by Ariadne Labs to support health care providers and patients with serious illnesses in ...
Original Research / BY: Emily Meagher, MPH June 2025
... medical care in a coordinated fashion within the health care system, which frequently leaves them to advocate ... (CCDP), established in 2012 at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in Vancouver, was the first tertiary care ... was completed collaboratively by physicians and allied health professionals. The Interprofessional Assessment Tool ...
Premise / BY: Catherine Joanne Binda, MD June 2025
... Indigenous law at the federal level; and education, health care, and child welfare at the provincial and ... article 12 (views), article 23 (disability), article 24 (health), article 28 (access to education), article 29 (aims ... populations, including children and youth with complex health and developmental conditions at BC Children’s ...