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Letters / BY: Dean Giustini, MLS, MEd October 2025
... critical role of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (CPSBC) Library and address the profound impact of its ... expressed in letters from physicians and librarians to the BC Medical Journal . Since 1960, CPSBC librarians have ... and Jane Jun from the Health Libraries Association of BC said that equating library value with usage metrics was ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC October 2025
... care was reduced from the initially promised 50% to 23%. BC’s Ministry of Health responded by reducing the annual ... consists of tools and assistants to improve efficiency. In BC, physician assistants are limited to Ministry of ... Medical Journal reported that most family physicians in BC had adopted electronic medical records (EMRs),[ 7 ] ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC October 2025
... Dating back to the time of Hippocrates (c. 460–370 BC), bloodletting was promoted as a cure for the imbalance of ... mercury treatments Arsenic trioxide, traced back to 2000 BC, has the unique distinction of being both medicine and ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC October 2025
... as the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and BC Cancer. The stated aim of this review is “minimizing ...
President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD October 2025
... health care challenges are not rare; they are the norm in BC’s medical community. Yet this culture of perseverance ... associations, sections, and societies, and Doctors of BC. Our collective voice remains essential to shaping a ... with dignity and respect. To my colleagues across BC—those in hospitals and in community, both rural and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Arianne Albert, PhD October 2025
In April 2020, the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Office of the ... reporting. Out of approximately 169 000 total deaths in BC from 2020 to 2023, we estimate that there were 7270 (95% ... most appropriate method for estimating excess mortality in BC, given its adaptability to stratified analyses. While this ...
Interviews / BY: Tara Lyon October 2025
... In addition to working as a general pediatrician at BC Children’s Hospital, Dr Kang works with the Social ...
MDs To Be / BY: A. Gangji, MEd October 2025
... cases Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease In 2023, BC experienced the most destructive forest fire season in ... ] This was especially evident during the 2021 heat dome in BC, where record temperatures were seen in many parts of the ...
News October 2025
Doctors of BC’s biennial Health Authority Engagement Survey is open ... challenges remain, and what changes they want to see. As BC physicians continue to face a system in crisis, this feedback will help guide Doctors of BC’s advocacy efforts to shape a more resilient health care ...
Review Articles / BY: Adam P. Sage, MD, MSc November 2025
... A review of presentations of cannabis poisonings in the BC Children’s Hospital ED prior to legalization indicated that only 1.1% of poisonings treated at BC Children’s from 2016 to 2018 were related to ... this highlights the need for ongoing surveillance in BC EDs.[ 18 ] Conclusions Unintentional exposure to cannabis ...