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Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC January/February 2003
... Dease Lake has the most northern, rural, isolated health care centre in the province, far more isolated than ... happens to be the community that I know best, as far as health care in isolated areas is concerned, as I have been ... so. By the time the community had opened its own Stikine Health Centre in 1994, I was the identified medical director ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC January/February 2003
... names and ages? How is their physical and mental health? (To each:) Are they “good news” or “bad ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc January/February 2003
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a public health problem that is partly preventable with sufficient ... providing the basis for many drug safety advisories from Health Canada or industry, such as those describing pure red ... Centre, the local centre for pharmacovigilance set up by Health Canada. These reports, of which nearly two-thirds ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2003
... on-call agreement between the BCMA and the BC Ministry of Health (MOH).  It turns out that the actual planning to ... to doctors providing on-call for institutions or for those health regions that require doctors to be on call for some of ... communities, and the communities in turn will feel the health care needs of their residents are optimized.  For all ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2003
... diversity brings with it challenges in meeting the health care needs of different ethno-cultural groups. Reitz ... low rates of utilization of many important social and health services, despite evidence of significant need.” ... that may impede ethno-cultural groups from accessing health services include a lack of awareness of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP March 2003
... try to divert more money to Band-Aid the upcoming booming health care costs. The bottom line is that you need to ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2003
... —Senator Michael Kirby, Chair, Senate Commission on Health Care (on the topic of a “care guarantee”), 2002 An ... ethical physician’s role is to attempt to ensure quality health care that is appropriate, effective, and provided in a ... legislation that limits the rights of both patients and health providers. In a May 2002 CMA survey, 82% of 2000 ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2003
... level that allowed it to fulfill the promise of the Canada Health Act. When I politely asked how much she thought the ... out how much tax money Canadians need to dedicate to their health care system to satisfy what appears to be, ... If we continue to fund all that is “needed” in health care, this fiscal black hole will bankrupt us. Instead ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Taddei, PharmD March 2003
... for other patients. This is truly a shame when our public health care system is financially strained and starting to ... of Pharmacy Services    Fraser North Area,     Fraser Health Authority Dr Koehler responds When offering a critical ... there is demonstrable benefit, both to the patient and to health care costs. Since the vast majority of patients are ...
Letters / BY: Ronald Cridland, MD March 2003
... living in the US for 5 years, I purchased catastrophic health insurance for $2000 per year and found that more ... ideas such as this. If we are truly going to re-evaluate health care in this country, we need to look at every option ...