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WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Krawciw, MD July/August 2005
... responsibilities should a spill occur. • Monitor the health of anyone exposed to mercury in your office and ... verify proper cleanup. In most cases there will be minimal health risk and minimal office disruption from a small spill. ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD July/August 2005
... centrally administered available amount, safeguarding our health care system from devolved envelope funding to regional health authorities. Unfortunately, the government has sent ... prohibiting private insurance to pay for publicly funded health services in some instances can jeopardize the ...
Obituaries / BY: Robert Hill, BMBCh July/August 2005
... were based at the time. He was on the active staff at the Health Centre for Children in the VGH and at the old ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2005
... references to resources that are specific to the UK health system, such as PRIMIS (Primary Care Information ... process that includes analysis of donor as well as public health WNV surveillance data from Canadian and US sources. ... For 2005, single-unit testing will be initiated in a health region when a positive blood donor is detected using ...
Letters / BY: Peter Grantham, MD July/August 2005
... Quality Improvement Days (PQIDs). It seems the health care system is currently having some difficulty ... difficult and unquantifiable stuff like school and public health education, societal lifestyle and expectation change, ...
Letters / BY: Lynn Moran July/August 2005
There is increasing evidence that the health care system is less responsive to the needs of ... barriers to access can be seen at every level of the health care structure: lack of linguistically appropriate ... has chosen to live in BC, and when he or she needs health care services, it may or may not be possible for him ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2005
... seen in the eyes of our prime minister and his minister of health as they faced the media following the Supreme Court of ... (SCC) decision on medicare. “There will be no two-tier health care,” they echoed in near harmony. “We must ... suffering and sometimes dying on waiting lists for health care? In rejecting laws that have forced Canadians to ...
Editorials / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD July/August 2005
... what relevance does a train have to the current state of health care in BC? Information technology (IT), and believe ... and worldwide on the need to improve the efficiency of health care delivery and IT is being recognized as a critical ... be seen as a pivotal year for information technology in health care in British Columbia. At a national, provincial, ...
Editorials / BY: Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC July/August 2005
... for cardiovascular disease and consume more hospital and health care resources than those with normal kidney function. ... internists, endocrinologists, and the Ministry of Health chronic disease management group have collaborated to ... together to ensure the best patient outcomes. Few other health care systems have embarked on such a comprehensive ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July/August 2005
... government has been threatening to proclaim the Alberta Health Care Plan for the past year. I suspect they have been ... Major that “Access to a waiting list is not access to health care” is an incisive indictment and should be carved ... Will some of the provinces decide to challenge the Canada Health Act (CHA) themselves rather than be faced with a host ...