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Letters / BY: Guy Screech, MD, November 2006
... minister has chosen to distance himself from a significant health issue of concern to most physicians in Canada. —HMO ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Fred Bass, MD, DSc November 2006
... smoking, [3,4]  there would be considerable gain for our health care system if all practitioners systematically ... in operation. We at the Society for Clinical Preventive Health Care urge you to do what many BC physicians have been ... the BC Stop Smoking Program. We have provided provincial health professionals with clinical materials, patient ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brian Phillips, November 2006
Health Canada, in collaboration with the provinces and ... to revisit an important though not widely known health risk. It is estimated that radon accounts for about ... to test for radon and methods to reduce exposure. Issues Health Canada’s announcement in April 2006 proposes that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brenda Kosaka, MD November 2006
... the neuropsychologist that they have not shared with other health care providers. Based on the information gathered ... assistance program) at work or through their extended health benefits plan, particularly when there are vocational ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC November 2006
... Department of Psychiatry  Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, Clinical Professor, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pankaj Dhawan, MD, FRCPC, November 2006
... brain injury and who live in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. Referrals can be made from emergency ... will be used, and to decrease their dependence on the health care professionals by limiting the visits to the ... in a community-based program funded by the Ministry of Health called Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Brooks, MD, November 2006
... experts to provide recommendations for improvement of health and safety of athletes who suffer concussion. Three ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP December 2006
... death. • Only one had an identifiable pre-injury mental health history. • Five were known to be suicide risks. • ...
President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, December 2006
Planning for the future in an era of exponential health care change is quite a task for all associations. ... learn about advocacy, media relations, physician health, and countless other topics. Unfortunately, many ... students, residents, their attending physicians, and other health care providers. Some described feeling shocked, ...
News December 2006
... play in pandemic planning SARS taught those involved with health care delivery that Canada is sorely unprepared to respond to a major pandemic. The already overburdened health care system has little wiggle room to accommodate a major demand on hospitals and a limited number of health care workers. The government of BC has undertaken a ...