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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July/August 2004
... registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, a position she retired from in the past year or so. Prior ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2004
... A recent survey showed that half of all children at BC’s Children’s Hospital were waiting a medically ...
Letters / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... aboriginal persons living on reserve in British Columbia (BC) is administered out of the BC Centre for Disease Control through Tuberculosis Services ... Cook, MD  Tuberculosis Services to Aboriginals BC Centre for Disease Control —Meenakshi Dawar, MD ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... Social agencies, including the Alzheimer Society of BC and the continuing care units of the regional health authorities in BC, are important contact points for patients and families. ... to drive by the mild to moderate stages of impairment. In BC, when an objective measure of driving fitness is required, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC September 2004
... interest of both patients and providers of health care in BC. VIRAP (rapid diagnosis of viral respiratory infections) ... Control, Women’s and Children’s Health Centre of BC —Judith Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC Director, BCCDC Laboratory Services BC Centre for Disease Control Prevention and control of ...
Editorials / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... provides an up-to-date clinical perspective on AD care in BC. Physicians who commit a large part of their clinical ... that ChEIs are not useful treatments worth paying for in BC. Their determined line of resistance has left BC as one of only two or three provinces in Canada without ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2004
BC Medical Journal : What gives you the most professional ... when one becomes involved with an organization like the BC Medical Association, one realizes what a complex ... medical care, despite what some politicians are saying. In BC, I believe 80% of doctors are on fee-for-service. I ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Edna Durbach, Ed.D October 2004
... In 2000, members of the parent advisory committee at BC’s Children’s Hospital (part of Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of BC) were frustrated by the difficulties and delays in ... by Partners in Care, the parent advisory committee to BC’s Children’s Hospital, under the auspices of Sharon ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charmaine Kim-Sing, MD, ChB, FRCPC October 2004
... be noted that BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing have resumed at the BC Cancer Agency. (Testing was suspended from July 2001 to February 2003 because of the BC government’s concern that genetic testing could infringe upon the patent of Myriad Genetics. BC was the only province to suspend testing.) The testing is ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
...  In 2002 and 2003, the STD/AIDS Control Division of the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Sexual Health ... met. The pretest counseling guidelines currently in use in BC [1]  were designed to promote physician-patient dialogue ... the total number of family medicine practitioners in the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons database was 4715. ...