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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc May 2003
... in BC. Physicians must report the following to the medical health officer in their area: • Patients who have ... blood in the previous 4 weeks. BCCDC and regional medical health officers will notify physicians and the public when ...
Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD May 2003
... physicians would welcome an independent body to look at health care in BC with respect to resources, waitlists, and ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD May 2003
... explaining that in BC there existed an extensive public health and education system. Patients could and should attend ... doctors got on with doctoring. Since arriving in BC my health unit seems to be otherwise too preoccupied to fulfill ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Johnston, MD May 2003
... same level of care as the wealthiest. From an access to health care perspective, rural Canadians are at a ... must travel farther and incur greater expense when seeking health care from physicians not living in their rural ... hospital and medical services in an attempt to make health care delivery more efficient, effective, and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN June 2003
On 27 February 2003 the Ministry of Health Planning announced funding for two new vaccine ... of all ages, starting at 2 months of age, who have health conditions that place them at higher risk for ... children ≥ 2 years of age, with any of the preceding health conditions, receive the pneumococcal polysaccharide ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2003
... there was no one else there. Various attempts by public health authorities to contain the polio epidemic seemed to ... of hysteria that seemed so pervasive everywhere but in the health care sector. Dr Kendall stated that the tempest ...
Letters / BY: James E Parker, MB June 2003
... approbation in restoring the conventional role of public health in epidemic containment. His effective handling of ... measures. In this country Reid and Archibald from Health Canada ( CMAJ  2003;168[8]:958-960) tell us that ...
Letters / BY: Donald J. Young, MD June 2003
... evidence that it is not the total amount that is spent on health care that makes a difference in general health, but rather how the health dollars are distributed (the glaring example being the ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... Additionally, LHRHa patients felt that their overall health was not as good, and they believed they were not free ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John H. Hay, MB July/August 2003
... chemotherapy for colon cancer, the National Institutes of Health issued a consensus statement in 1990 that recommended ...