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Premise / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP May 2005
... This would allocate about $20 per person per year for all BC residents. A busy full-service doctor with 2500 patients ... docs would either belly up to the bar and become real doctors or they would go hungry. If patients used an average ... an onus of responsibility on all three players, namely doctors, patients, and government. It also generates an ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD June 2005
... the release of the BCMA’s document  Specialty Care in BC—A System in Distress , which gave government a failing ... this excellent program is increasing. More and more doctors are experiencing job dissatisfaction manifested by ... ensure adequate and sufficient representation for all BC doctors. An ad hoc Committee on Governance and Restructuring ...
Premise / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) June 2005
The expansion of BC’s medical program is the first in a series of steps we ... In June 2000, approximately 7000 residents of northern BC came together at an arena in Prince George to protest ... in terms of helping the burden of illness and the types of doctors it needs is generalists in the broadest sense of the ...
News June 2005
... Award Dr George Magee, a rural doctor from Burns Lake, BC, was recently awarded a 2005 British Columbia Community ... about his profession—especially the recruitment of doctors for rural service—and remains active with the ... to state “there would not only be a shortage of family doctors in the future but those who did chose that field ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, CCFP June 2005
Kudos to the BCMA and BC government for attracting 650 FPs to Vancouver for the ... not apply here and never will without capitation. Most BC doctors do not want capitation. However, the British doctors clearly relayed that pay parity with specialists is ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2005
... production online. We were a little surprised that so few doctors want to read the  BCMJ  online given that the percentage of homes in BC with at least one PC is the highest in Canada. Perhaps our ... quite small, and I suspect that our current group of doctors just prefers to read a proper magazine and not a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Duncan Robertson, MD, FRCP, FRCPC June 2005
... quality-of-life, and health care costs. What can the doctors of British Columbia do to prevent falls? First, some ... Office of the Provincial Health Officer, [2]  and on the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit web site. [3] An older ... however, this is not the case in many other parts of BC. Over the next year the BCMA Geriatric and Palliative Care ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD July/August 2005
... working environment of physicians is improved to make sure BC can successfully retain and recruit the doctors we so desperately need. The result of May’s ... best possible relationship between this government and the doctors of BC. A good working relationship will be necessary ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2005
... Protecting the blood supply from West Nile virus—BC update, 2005 Blood donor WNV testing and surveillance ... the training clinics for the Sun Run, gave weekly tips for doctors around BC who signed up to follow the Sun Run ... to walk 10 km, run 10 km, or run 10 km faster. About 25 doctors signed on to the training program. Some of the ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2005
... the Supreme Court decision mean and how will it affect doctors and their patients in British Columbia? I will ... will have to change to make insurance available locally. BC and Alberta will not sit passively by and watch money ... Patients will receive timely care when they and their doctors (not governments) feel it is appropriate. As we look ...