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Clinical Articles / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD June 2004
... to support the computerization of physician offices in BC. The BCMA recommends an annual allocation of $8000 per ... leaders and create IT user groups throughout BC in order to facilitate this process. “Ideas for change ... OF AN IT USER GROUP A group of physicians in Richmond, BC, has been working together to identify information ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jonathan Burns, MD, CCFP(EM) June 2004
... many patients in an hour from home or summer cabin. The BC Ambulance Service, one of the largest and most technically ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD June 2004
... virus (WNV) has rapidly spread across North America to the BC border since first being recognized in 1999 in New York ... was detected in animals, birds, mosquitoes, or humans in BC up to early 2004, [4]  public health officials are ... anticipating and actively planning for its emergence in BC this year. If the intensity of WNV activity in BC ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... British Columbia. The risk that the virus will move into BC during 2004 remains high. There is also a risk that BC residents will become infected while traveling outside the ... the Rocky Mountains to reach southern California. Only BC, Washington, Oregon, PEI, and Newfoundland did not have ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2004
... staff bylaws have been a bit of a sticky problem for BC’s hospitals for many years. There has never been a ... representatives and are our voice in the dirty world of BC medical politics. When the bureaucrats go after our ... bureaucracy.   —JAW Editorials The dirty world of BC medical politics ...
Letters / BY: Roger S. Tonkin, MDCM, FRCPC, OBC June 2004
... more recent initiative not mentioned in Dr Hay’s list of BC resources. This is the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of ... organizations for projects in their own region of BC (see  www.myfoundation.ca ). The MYF is a new ... aboriginal youth, for parent support, and for males). Any BC organization may apply for funding and readers are ...
Letters June 2004
... that would be beneficial if shared with the doctors of BC. The issues relate to seatbelt exemption certificates and ... with few exceptions. The current seatbelt wear rate in BC is almost 90%. The 10% that choose not to wear seatbelts ... end a long life. Collectively we can make the highways of BC safer. —Sgt. I.E. (Ted) Emanuels NCO i/c Traffic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathryn Hornby, DMD, MLS, CertMinf July/August 2004
... Service of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC ( www.mls.cpsbc.ca )—access for CPSBC members to the ... Library of Medicine, the Canadian Medical Association, the BC College’s Medical Library Service, and the UBC Library. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... kind of consultation. For example, in a number of small BC communities without resident psychiatrists, mental health ... victim could not be evacuated by air from a regional BC community recently because of fog, a neurosurgeon in an ... (telemedicine). The essential first step for telehealth in BC is to build an ICT infrastructure to facilitate timely ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... and assess its influence in other settings within BC. —Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC Director, TB Services to Aboriginals TB Control, BCCDC BC Centre for Disease Control Social network analysis methods ...