Editorials /
BY: Mike Farnworth, MLA
June 2000
... future, we’ll need to rely on the advice of the experts: BC’s doctors. I believe we share a common goal with ... the system is funded to meet the needs of patients. The BC government spends more than one-third of its budget on ... Allan Rock about the need for primary care reform. In BC we have seven such demonstration projects underway that ...
Editorials /
BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN
June 2000
... and rehabilitative services. Evaluations of several BC demonstration and pilot projects indicate that registered ... RN First Call, begun as a pilot project in 1996 in one BC hospital, has expanded to 10 hospitals. This program uses ...
Editorials /
BY: David Doty, MD
June 2000
When the BC Medical Journal approached me for my thoughts on where ...
Editorials /
BY: Bill Cavers, MD
June 2000
... producing enough medical graduates to replace losses, and BC has the fewest medical students per capita of any Canadian ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP
July/August 2000
... evidence has pointed to a crisis in rural medicine in BC for years, but quantitative data have been scant—until ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS
September 2000
... to massage therapy. Discussions with physicians across BC indicate that many doctors are perplexed by these ... Policy Manual of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (7 July 1999)[ 1 ] relating to alternative and ... Indeed, feature articles in recent issues of the BC Massage Practitioner by Dressler[ 2,3 ] refer to the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Shayesta Dhalla, MD
September 2000
... deadly autosomal dominant disorder. The authors describe a BC family with the disease, discuss the disorder, and suggest ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jacqueline Saw, MD, FRCPC
October 2000
... their findings regarding its use in a small group of BC patients. Clinical Articles The use of intravenous ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: T. Gregory Hislop, MDCM
December 2000
... Columbia in recent years. As of 1996, 299 860 (8%) of the BC population identified themselves as Chinese.[ 1 ] A large ... rates than North American-born Chinese people. In BC, Chinese people have been found to have twice the cervical ... A comprehensive list of Chinese surnames, totaling 178 for BC, was derived from multiple data sources, including ...