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Clinical Articles / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS November 2005
... teams are available through referral to the community health units, or specialty geriatric programs if more complex ... placement process, referral to the appropriate community health unit is needed. There are many issues about the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2005
... meaningless event, making it essential for both family and health care team members to carefully assess the nature and ... surgery, but in the meantime to have a member of the health care team regularly assess the patient’s voiding ... easily monitored for effectiveness. The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s Geriatric Psychiatry Education Program ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Randy N. Ross, MSc November 2005
... can legally use this type of “harmful energy.” The health professions legislation is still under development in this province. The Health Act—Personal Services Establishments Regulations [1] ... to ensure that appropriate hygiene standards and public health safeguards are met. In addition, exposure of workers ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB November 2005
... Many believe in the fee-for-service model. So-called health experts who propose saving the system by pressuring ... is the single-payer system with limited funds and rationed health service delivery. Doctors and patients must conform to ... determining appropriate remuneration. The overall rise in health costs, overhead, and other expenses, and the rationing ...
Letters / BY: Michael Goldberger, MD November 2005
... that we are making a huge contribution to their ongoing health care. This of course could all be attributed to ... light on this question. Starfield et al. wrote in  Health Affairs  March 2005, that the higher the rate of ...
News November 2005
... courage or the endurance of hardship in the promotion of health or the saving of life; or advancing the humanitarian ... to the advancement of medical research, medical education, health care organization or health education of the public; service to the people of ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD November 2005
... the BCMA supports as it meets its mandate to advance the health and well-being of patients as well as the working ... to consult with the BCMA on key issues affecting health care in the province. The BCMA continues to advocate ... role for physicians in the management and reform of the health care system. The BCMA believes that physicians must ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP November 2005
... program provided at only the Langley location of Columbia Health Centre. The goals of the program are to maximize the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP December 2005
... project is designed to provide multiple benefits to our health care service providers: • Improved electronic ... report—because the system will alert the appropriate health care services advisor as soon as a worker or employer ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD December 2005
... shortages in medical school training, (not to mention the health care system as a whole), and not enough space in this ...