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News / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2006
Doctors in the news Taunton named chief medical officer for 2010 University of BC sports medicine doctor, Dr Jack Taunton has been selected ... in palliative care. The College gives the award to family doctors who provide exceptional care to patients and make ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS March 2006
... from fellow students Healthy Buddies, an initiative of BC Children’s Hospital, is a child-centred health promotion ... Education Society (MMES). Driven to provide Lower Mainland doctors with the opportunity to partake in quality CME ... start and finish on time, and this tight schedule attracts doctors who often avoid events that tend to run late into the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Nadine Caron, MD, April 2006
... to this cultural, social, and professional knowledge. Even doctors with the best intentions will struggle to acquire ... the Aboriginal Health Committee at  aboriginal@bcma.bc.ca . —Nadine Caron, MD Chair, Aboriginal Health ...
News / BY: Sarah Gilgoff, BSc, April 2006
... is expected to keep approximately 2400 women annually in BC safer and closer to home. Dr Peter von Dadelszen, Sherry ... and benefits on a regular basis. Protections against doctors being forced to change their practice form or method ... Agreement that supports a trilateral relationship between doctors, the provincial government, and health authorities ...
Premise / BY: Faith E. Hayman, LLB, BA, BEd April 2006
... most people purchase disability insurance. The courts in BC have characterized disability insurance as insurance which ... words, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Doctors who are requested to provide reports for patients ... any one of several courses of treatment recommended by his doctors, he or she will be considered to have acted ...
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 ... organized the Docs-on-the-Run online training program. BC doctors can be come more physically active through the walk, ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD June 2006
... which also attempted to better reward full-service family doctors. There was spirited debate around the proposals and ... expressed significant concerns. The proposals were sent to BC’s family physicians for referendum, and they did not ... their time to strengthen the BCMA for the benefit of all doctors and our patients. The Society of General ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS June 2006
... lays the foundation for a trilateral relationship between doctors, the government, and health authorities. The ... Agreement that supports a trilateral relationship between doctors, government, and health authorities. Existing joint ... mammography The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, BC/Yukon Chapter (CBCF), recently announced the second-year ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... medicine (CAM), entitled “Snake oil revisited: For doctors’ eyes only”  (BCMJ 2006;48[1]:20-21) , he ... always subtle. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC chose Dr Angell as the keynote speaker at its Ethics ... Association of Complementary and Integrative Physicians of BC (ACIPBC) —Carol Douglas MD, FRCP Vice-President, ...
Letters / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd July/August 2006
... My colleagues and I frequently receive notice from family doctors’ offices or clinics (those courteous enough to call ... to defend. —Adam Lund, MD Royal Columbian/Eagle Ridge/ BC Children’s Hospitals * ACS = Acute coronary ...