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News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS September 2005
... achievements in clinical practice, teaching, research, and health advocacy include setting up BC’s first blood bank in ... undergraduate and postgraduate students, and has been a health advocate for HIV awareness, most notably, serving as a ... times. Midwifery services are covered under the provincial health plan. Book review Clio in the Clinic.  Edited by ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Westby, MD September 2005
... April 2005 entitled, “BC’s technologically challenged health care system” (BCMJ 2005;47[3]:128). His points are ... very outdated MediTech software system that the Interior Health Authority is continuing to pour millions of dollars ... understand the current state of information technology in health care in British Columbia (and the rest of Canada) in ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... that’s much of what we do, of course, is help people in health crises. End-of-life care is also very rewarding work. ... will be big: there will be improvements in patients’ health, including safety, saving lives, and ultimately saving ... going to save money there. Because of the way we provide health care in Canada it’s difficult to see that global ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD September 2005
... in his book that many people, frustrated with conventional health care, are turning to complementary and alternative ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Galt Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2005
... joint initiative of UBC, the BCMA, and the BC Ministry of Health Services. Those responsible for training rural and ... have reliable access to world-class, appropriately staffed health facilities. The Prince George Regional Hospital is ... northern populations receive equitable access to quality health care. To this end, the literature supports a number of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Fairholm, MD, FRCSC September 2005
... of physicians in nonurban areas, the changing provision of health care, and the changing economics of medical practice ... to teach. The first and most important is a strained health care system that has resulted in increasing acuity of ... must acknowledge that clinical teaching is vital to the health of society and provide the resources to ensure that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP September 2005
... 40 years by the early 1900s. A 1903 home encyclopedia of health proudly reports that in 16th-century Geneva only 3% of ... surrounded by loved ones. The spiritual advisor, not health care professionals, gave comfort to the dying who, ... washouts. It is helping to avoid potholes created by health care system problems and spotting the wildlife of pain ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Todd Cherniak, LLB September 2005
... This is because MRI is a scarce resource in the public health care system that cannot currently fully bear the ... doctor, and will not in any way be a burden on the public health care system. Why MRI? As a diagnostic tool, MRI is far ... these claimants are not disenfranchised. The Canada Health Act permits individuals to go outside of the public ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC September 2005
... to the patients. [4]  It would set two standards of health care for Canadians, which we would rightly reject. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H. Baillie, MD, FRCPC September 2005
...  Canadians are not getting the best possible standard of health care because our medical schools and health care planners have failed to recognize the crucial ... If we believe that GIM specialists are crucial to our health care system, how can we remedy this situation? We must ...