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Clinical Articles / BY: A.J. Pollard MBBS, MRCPCH, PhD, DIC January/February 2001
... to a population incidence of 0.9/100,000 per year in BC, which is comparable to the national incidence in Canada[ ... petechial rash) and estimated in children to be 25% in BC (personal communication, P. Skippen, pediatric intensive care unit, BC Children’s Hospital, 15 September 2000) and elsewhere.[ ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn L. Malone, MD, FRCPC January/February 2001
... Educational handouts, posters, and a video from the BC Centre for Disease Control were used in an awareness ... Committee on Immunization, only 45% of nursing homes in BC experiencing an outbreak during the 1997–98 season used ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2001
... and nurses finally realized the enormous power they hold. BC’s doctors have confidently stared down the NDP ... as there are going to be significant changes in BC with an election likely in the early spring—an election ... on the near horizon are contract negotiations with most of BC’s health-care unions, and I suppose the last thing the ...
Letters / BY: Alex Porzecanski, MD January/February 2001
... increased residency positions over all Canada, not just in BC, we have then more room to train our own Canadian foreign ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Chris A. Speropoulos, BSc March 2001
... items. This equipment is lent to clinicians throughout BC for short periods for use in their assessments. Telephone ... for disabled adult clients of limited financial means in BC. Technology for Independent Living also helps fund ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charles Brasfield, MD, PhD, FRCPC March 2001
... schools delegated to a number of Christian churches. In BC, the schools operated from approximately 1863 to 1984, and ... was finally closed. In all, there were 16 such schools in BC operated by the Government of Canada, the United Church, ... without hindrance. An overview of traditional cultures in BC should help readers understand the impact of the Indian ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2001
... appointee to one of the largest regional health boards in BC came open and the region’s doctors were invited to ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP March 2001
Several readers of the  BC Medical Journal  have brought to my attention an anonymous letter printed in the  BC Medical Journal  (2000;42[8]:374) entitled "What’s ...
Premise / BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC March 2001
... Wade, Rheumatologist Premise The drug review process in BC: A critique ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2001
... of that day thinking about the high cost of living in BC, the onerous tax load, and the rapidly crumbling system of ... percentage of the health-care workers presently working in BC will eventually have their own personal epiphany and many ...