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WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP March 2006
West Nile virus (WNV) is an important emerging disease for WorkSafeBC along with SARS and possibly the avian influenza. ... reproductive cycle. • If appropriate, provide advice on how to deal with dead birds (especially of the crow family). ... Health Officer— www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/pho/ • WorkSafeBC— www.worksafebc.com • BC Public Service ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP April 2006
... was optional, is now mandatory. Raising awareness Here at WorkSafeBC, our goal is to educate injured workers and their ... so that they understand what pressure wounds are and how they can be prevented and/or treated. We also want to ... issues relating to pressure ulcers. If you have a WorkSafeBC patient with a pressure wound, we would be pleased ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP May 2006
In early April, WorkSafeBC extended its program of early intervention for ... he or she will ever return to employment. That’s why WorkSafeBC works to rehabilitate injured workers and help ... workers can remain at work in some modified capacity. How we can help The focus of our nurse advisors is to ensure ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP June 2006
WorkSafeBC makes literally hundreds of thousands of decisions ... Division, is an internal but independent division of WorkSafeBC; it verifies that the law and relevant policies ... you might be asked for faster responses to enquiries. How to help your patient If your patient is involved in the ...
Letters / BY: Joelle Bradley, MD, June 2006
Dr Graham’s article for WorkSafeBC ( BCMJ  2006;48[1]:36)  makes intuitive sense ... all for many aspects of their necessary daily workload. If WorkSafeBC wants family doctors to engage in telephone ... occupational disease” was intended, in part, to show how we establish a claim for workers who contract an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brenda Kosaka, MD November 2006
... functioning. Functional MRI (fMRI) can illustrate how certain types of tasks activate the brain, but cannot yet ... current work situation or to make recommendations about how a student needs to modify his educational pursuits. ... coordinators in the rehabilitation department of ICBC or WorkSafeBC will pay for neuropsychological assessments. There ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jill Franklin, BA, December 2006
... emotional support. • Examining stressors and suggesting how to deal with them. • Encouraging daily physical ... patients may be referred elsewhere for counseling. WorkSafeBC’s Brain Injury Program  is being expanded ... to specialists through the Visiting Specialist Clinic at WorkSafeBC (general inquiries, 604 232-7787). Assessment and ...