Editorials /
BY: Dr Kimit Rai, MD, FRCSC
July / August 2001
... industry is proposed. —Kimit Rai, MD, FRCSC BC Representative, Ethics Committee of the Canadian Medical ...
Editorials /
BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD
July / August 2001
... are not honoring the social contract between them and BC’s surgeons. As long as anyone can remember, it was ...
Premise /
BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD
July / August 2001
... worries they face is the prospect of a billing audit. The BC Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the British ... Committee, produces an annual practice profile for each of BC’s approximately 7000 physicians. Health systems ... activity and to identify high cost outliers. [1-3] The BC profile has several purposes. The first is to provide ...
Clinical Articles
September 2001
... denying, and will continue to deny, the population of BC acceptable cardiovascular care. Purpose In an audit type ... to: • Determine the number of cardiologists currently in BC • Determine the adequacy of this number • Determine ... training) cardiology residents currently training in BC • Determine the adequacy of this number • Predict the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Joseph Noone, MD, LRCP&SI, FRCPC
September 2001
... there is no currently accepted best practice standard in BC for Level 2 and Level 3 training, a review of the health ... white teams, and for health care security professionals. BC Centre for Disease Control Providing training to prevent ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: R.C. Offer, MD, FRCPC, FACR
October 2001
... ultrasound (QUS). Most bone-mass measurements done in BC currently utilize DEXA of the hip and/or spine, or QUS of ... and community (DEXA is unavailable in many regions of BC). Some patients will need a DEXA for confirmation or ...
College Library /
BY: Jim Henderson
October 2001
... & Bytes alerts College members to articles relevant to BC practice. As well, the Library can supply, upon request, ... Library Service College of Physicians & Surgeons of BC College Library Focused, systematic, current awareness: ...
Editorials /
BY: James A. Wilson, MD
October 2001
... nice about the editorialists who regularly provide the BC Medical Journal with extremely high-quality editorials ...
Editorials /
BY: James A. Wilson, MD
October 2001
... fairly large, skilled, and highly motivated wellspring of BC authors. There are periods, however, when the steady ... based on their clinical and scientific merit, relevance to BC doctors, and the quality of the writing. Almost every ...
Letters /
BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD
October 2001
... harass the conscientious practising family physicians of BC. Nowhere in their account do they show any way in which ... their time, and the hard-earned money of the doctors of BC, with such a statistical exercise when the priority is to ...