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College Library / BY: Jim Henderson July / August 2001
... local 2255 for more information on the CMA Library. BC health libraries Hospital libraries across the province are ... As well as hospital libraries, the MLS works with other BC health libraries such as those at the WCB and Ministry of Health. We encourage you to patronize your local library. See ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July / August 2001
... self-help booklets had no significant impact on the use of health services. I wonder if anyone in the Health Ministry actually looked in the medical literature for ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July / August 2001
A few years ago I made an important mental-health maintenance decision. I decided to get off the ... However, reality quickly dampens the enthusiasm of novice health ministers within a few heartbeats. I think we will see our shiny new health minister demonstrating the strained “what the hell ...
Editorials / BY: Dr Kimit Rai, MD, FRCSC July / August 2001
... is to ensure that they give their patients good health care. But giving good care means much more than ... clinician. In the first article, “Ethics resources in health care institutions,” Dr Alister Browne, the chair of ... and an ethics consultant in Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences Centre, puts ethics resource committees in ...
Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD July / August 2001
... urgent and emergent patients. This is no longer the case. Health care administrators and governments have bought into the mantra of health care economists who suggest that there are too many ... that the hospital administrators and the Ministry of Health would go to the College to say that these surgeons are ...
Letters / BY: Peter V. Richards, MB July / August 2001
... very short terms in the grand scheme of things (how many health ministers have we had during my practice lifetime?), ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD July / August 2001
... recognized as a medical or psychiatric disorder by courts, health insurers, and medical organizations including the ...
Letters / BY: G. Kenefick, MB July / August 2001
... jaded in view of all the other daily cliches about “health care crisis” in the daily news, but it is now an ...
Premise / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD July / August 2001
... to be a relatively poor predictor of individual need for health care services. A case mix adjustment method known as ... practices scrutinized is part of life in a publicly funded health care system. Comparison is difficult because of the ... is the prospect of a billing audit. The BC Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the British Columbia Medical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Janet Henderson, MB, BCh September 2001
... the potential to reduce the cost of influenza to the health service, since only 8% of patients in the zanamivir ... treatment groups required an unscheduled contact with health care professionals compared with 14% of patients in ... complications, zanamivir has the potential to reduce the health care costs associated with influenza, which could ...