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Clinical Articles / BY: Amil Shah, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP May 2000
... As a result of these studies, irinotecan was added to the BC Cancer Agency formulary as second-line chemotherapy for ... radiation improves overall patient survival.[ 20 ] In BC, high-risk rectal cancer patients are prescribed a course ...
Editorials / BY: G.I. McGregor, MD, FRCSC, FACS May 2000
... Systemic Therapy Subcommittee of the GI Tumor Group at the BC Cancer Agency, which meets to review policy on a regular ... care. This is an expensive, time-consuming process; the BC Cancer Agency has an obligation to assist physicians and ... of benefit to patients.  This article  represents the BC Cancer Agency policy, which is in agreement with that of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Hansen, MLA June 2000
... in our province. We have a situation in which the only way BC hospitals can meet their budgets is to turn away patients ... are wasted and mismanaged. As the Health Association of BC pointed out in its submission to the health minister last ... for health by $72 million, at the same time they overspent BC Ferries’ capital budget by $75 million. For the past ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC June 2000
The transformation of medicine in BC over the past 100 years and the breakneck pace of change ... make a few predictions for the next quarter century in BC. Our approaches to individual patients will be ... planned and all-encompassing models exemplified best by BC’s current cancer-care system. The full spectrum of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (RPEP) quickly. In BC, the exposure of greatest concern is that associated with ... reservoir throughout Canada and are the only reservoir in BC. Contact with any wild animal, and particularly any animal ... greatest concern in this province. The last human death in BC due to rabies was in 1985—the result of transmission ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T.F. Handley, MD June 2000
... to maintenance of competence will continue to grow. In BC, the College has focused on monitoring and enhancement of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martin Zelder, PhD June 2000
... Bearing this penalty, however, would be advantageous for BC if its loss of the CHST transfer were more than ... of the RAND experiment, discussed above, indicate that BC could reduce its public health spending by 19% if it ... accessibility to mean a 25% coinsurance rate. Thus, BC would benefit from opting out of the CHA if this saving in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: BCMJ Editorial Board June 2000
... 100th birthday. To celebrate this milestone, the  BC Medical Journal  has published, since the July/August ... ahead. We asked spokespeople in the various sectors of BC medicine to look into the future and write a short article ... in that change, the need to train more doctors in BC, the upcoming use of technology at the point of care, and, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Wong, MD June 2000
In its relatively short history, PAR-BC has had significant links with the BCMA. Our two ... great pride that many BCMA leaders were once active in PAR-BC. Physicians such as Dr Arun Garg, Dr Derryck Smith, Dr Ian ... of housestaff associations in the 1970s, including PAR-BC in 1973, alleviated some of those problems. Yet residents ...
Editorials / BY: Ralph Klein, MLA, Premier of Alberta June 2000
I would like to thank the  BC Medical Journal  for inviting me to participate in the ... of dedicated service to the people of your province. In BC, in my home province of Alberta, and across Canada, ...