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Editorials / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD July/August 2005
... does a train have to the current state of health care in BC? Information technology (IT), and believe me, it’s big ... we have lost an important physical setting—the doctors’ lounge. When the majority of physicians in the ... privileges, an important part of the day was visiting the doctors’ lounge, picking up one’s mail, and spending a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: R. Kirk Poulos, MD July/August 2005
... “shared care” refers to an arrangement where family doctors, specialists, and other health care providers (such ... Disease Management web site ( www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/cdm/patients ). How can patients become more active in ... be replaced with collaborative management involving family doctors, nephrologists, and other health care providers. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nancy Craven, MD, CCFP July/August 2005
Recommendation 1 in the BC guidelines for chronic kidney disease [1]  published in ... called the Kidney Care Initiative has had 15 family doctors participating since 2003 in a program designed to ... methods of identifying these patients in their practices. Doctors with computerized records can create a registry of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2005
The BC Medical Association’s 2005 Annual Convention came just 2 ... the legitimate concerns of salary and service contract doctors. If we don’t find a way to reach an agreement, we ... of health care available when they need it, and we, as doctors want to protect patient care. “While we are talking ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... yet disappearing teaching tool of mentoring. To ensure BC has a sustainable and vibrant health care system, our aspiring young doctors require role models and guidance. This has never been ... fewer medical students choosing family practice, and doctors opting out of the field altogether to work in allied ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS September 2005
... of insurance choices Members of the BCMA and the CMA in BC and their families now have broader insurance choices than ... office for more information. BCMA:  Toll free in BC 1 800 665-2262 ext. 2882 or 2836/604 638-2882 or 604 ... historians make good patients, but they make even better doctors,” encourages one author. This book is recommended ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
BC Medical Journal: Can you tell me about one of your career ... hope that there could be room for hospitalists and family doctors within our hospitals. For those physicians who choose ... the first adopters of pagers because they worked, allowing doctors to stay in contact with their patients when they ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Galt Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2005
... practice and become hospitalists, walk-in clinic doctors, or emergency care physicians. And increasing numbers ... physicians in British Columbia dropped from 576 (12.9% of BC physicians) in January 1994 to 490 (11.1%) in January ... rural Canada was 1:1201. The annual turnover of medical doctors in rural communities is increasing and is currently ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Fred Bass, MD, DSc October 2005
... Society for Clinical Preventive Health Care (formerly the BC Doctors’ Stop-Smoking Program) have learned in 15 years of helping doctors help their patients stop smoking is that clinical ...
Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... about very interesting research developments by Canadian doctors. The pride we can take in medical research ... Times Colonist, dated 1 April 2005 and entitled, “BC Removes 11,000 names from elective surgical wait list.” ... with meningococcemia, which was undiagnosed because the doctors couldn’t see her “for 8 hours or more.” This ...