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Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2006
Background Health care providers should strive to understand the ... enhance function in everyday life and improve or enhance health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Improved HRQOL may ... fewer office visits and hospitalizations and hence reduce health care costs. [1,2] With respect to diabetes, this means ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Humer, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2006
... people live within the jurisdictions of the Interior Health Authority (IHA) and Northern Health Authority (NHA). The population density for this ... of Thoracic Surgical Care, established by the Ministry of Health with the unanimous support of the BC Section of Chest ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2006
... Mr Peter Durrant, the executive director of Ministry of Health’s eHealth Program, who spoke about the many health information technology projects currently underway. A ... were major gaps in the care he received, and I felt the health care system had really let him, and my family, down. ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP September 2006
... benefits You may already be familiar with the WorkSafeBC health care and rehabilitation benefits that your patients ... include short-term disability wage loss payments, certain health care and rehabilitation costs, long-term benefits for ...
President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, September 2006
... provide the citizens of BC with the highest standard of health care while achieving maximum professional satisfaction ... to consult with the BCMA on key issues affecting health care, and guarantees that physicians cannot be ... the BCMA is considered the authoritative voice on major health issues. The underlying issue for each policy paper is ...
News / BY: Robert Hulyk, MHA, ABC, September 2006
... considerations for individuals but are also major public health concerns. Physicians wishing more information can ... . —Lloyd Oppel, MD BCMA Council on Health Promotion   Member info update form Have you returned ... about joining the new Core-Plus Plan under the BCMA Health Benefits Trust Fund, take note that the deadline to ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard E. Driedger, MD, FRCSC September 2006
Interior Health has introduced a form to be filled out in combination ...
Letters / BY: Hillary Lawson, MD, September 2006
... the fact that the financial/payer/payee structure of our health care system is similar to that of another country ... familiar with the work of Dr Paul Farmer (Partners in Health,  Pathologies of Power  author, Harvard Infectious ... his descriptions of the Cuban “government monopoly” health care system. No system is perfect, but Cuba’s ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... no support, no respect, very disenfranchised by their health authority or by some other system, are very poignant. ... also interesting to go from talking to the Minister of Health, to the Deputy Minister, to the Dean of UBC, all ... the other conflicts that come up at work with other health care providers, of all kinds and all positions. Some ...
Editorials / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD September 2006
... representing the government of Canada to his minister of health. I know Canadians care about the global pandemic of ...