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WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP April 2006
... and/or treated. We also want to raise awareness in BC’s medical community about the extent of this problem. We ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC May 2006
... of psychiatric assessment of inpatients at a northwestern BC hospital using three diagnostic questionnaires. Patient ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC May 2006
... the medical director of the clinic at Dease Lake for the BC College of Family Physicians. In that role, I undertook an ... positive outcomes are possible. The University of Northern BC in Prince George could, and should, be a key player in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ralph J. Maddess, PhD May 2006
... issues on a large scale was made in the 1970s when the BC government funded a research project to look into this ... Government of British Columbia, 1977. RJM visited most of BC’s mental health centres outside of Vancouver Island and ... that the need for mental health services throughout rural BC was high and access for service extremely low. The only ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC May 2006
... knowledge, and good practice. [1] In January 2005, the BC Ministry of Health Services provided funding for the ... a steering committee with a broad membership that includes BC experts in the fields of infection control, medical ... network office at 604 660-6152. —Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC BC Centre for Disease Control, Laboratory Services ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP May 2006
... on a regular basis. As active as we think? In 2004, the BC Nutrition Survey found that although 80% of adults in ... active enough for good health, a significant proportion of BC adults do no strenuous (61%) or moderate (36%) exercise ... of British Columbians. Currently 5.2% of people living in BC have been diagnosed with diabetes and this is predicted to ...
Editorials / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC May 2006
... health care in northern, rural, and isolated areas of BC ...
Letters / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC May 2006
... issue of the BCMJ [48(1):14-15]  contains a report by the BC Provincial Renal Agency (BCPRA), included in Pulsimeter, ... in the CMAJ, [1]  the home hemodialysis program in BC was in fact launched 36 years earlier, in 1968, by a team ... soon after by a team from VGH and, later, by others in BC as well as elsewhere in Canada. These two patients were ...
Letters / BY: Ken Bassett, MD, PhD May 2006
... 12 000 practising physicians and pharmacists throughout BC and ap proximately 1000 other stakeholders and ... offers a number of community educational sessions around BC, ranging from 1-hour CME rounds to 1-day courses. The main ... nominated by the BCMA—one physician nominated by the BC College of Family Practice and one pharmacist nominated by ...
News / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd May 2006
... Emergency Physician, Royal Columbian, Eagle Ridge, and BC Children’s Hospitals Hepatitis awareness dangerously low ... contact Karen Paul at 604 638-2836 or e-mail  kpaul@bcma.bc.ca . —Sandie Braid, CEBS Assistant Director, BCMA ... article on any medicine-related topic submitted to the BC Medical Journal by a medical student in British Columbia. ...