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WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP May 2007
... medical advisors are fully licensed physicians in BC working full or part time. Most are family doctors with at least 5 years’ experience in the community, ...
President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, June 2007
... and astounded time and again by the diversity of the doctors of BC, and perhaps the differences between us make unity more difficult. Doctors do very different things, are often on polar ...
Obituaries / BY: Michele Matthews (née Marinker), June 2007
... of surgery at the Jubilee Hospital, and president of the BC Surgical Society. In his spare time, he mastered chess ... different challenge in 1963: to be one of the 13 original doctors of the Algoma Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. ... this “union clinic,” but also saw many of the downtown doctors eventually move to the clinic. During this time, he ...
Letters / BY: Hugh H. Macartney, MB, FRCP, June 2007
... offices, emergency rooms, and hospital departments across BC. The service is underused by physicians at present, ... for patient care. Anything you can do to encourage the doctors in British Columbia to take advantage of this simple ... —ED I agree with you that pharmacists should not work as doctors. But I had trouble getting to the heart of your ...
Letters / BY: Barbara J. Kane, MD, June 2007
We are writing this as an open letter to the physicians of BC, primarily family physicians, pediatricians, and psychiatrists. We are asking the doctors to help us determine the need for acute psychiatric ... up our beliefs and hopefully develop more services. If doctors have similar psychiatric emergency situations with ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD June 2007
... in this province. Recent successes For many years BC was the only province that didn’t have a coordinated ... as a family. COHP attracted the participation of about 50 doctors from around the province to deliver an informative ... climate change will have on health and disease patterns in BC.  In the immediate future, the Council will be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Mackie, MD, MHSc, CCFP June 2007
... the public have the information they need to prepare. The BC Ministry of Health web site offers a wealth of pandemic ... moderately severe influenza pandemic suggests that family doctors can expect to see an increase in visits of up to 38% ... pandemic influenza to help take the burden off family doctors and emergency rooms. • Working with municipalities ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP July/August 2007
... documentation. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has written standards outlining facility and physician ... operate hyperbaric chambers are not necessarily medical doctors. Late last year, the BC Ministry of Health established a working group to review ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, July/August 2007
... your Association is planning to make its submission to BC’s Conversation on Health. The physicians of BC are on ... and initiatives developed to attract and retain doctors to this province. It also provided the opportunity ... $70 million for the retention and recruitment of rural doctors; the General Practice Services Committee, whose job ...
News July/August 2007
... Dept. of Psychiatry 7000 Westminster Highway  Richmond BC, V6X 1A2 Phone 604 278-9711, ext. 4055 ... but cannot do so because there are not enough nurses, doctors, or medical assistants. There, a medical assistant ... up to 2 months to start treatment because of the lack of doctors and nurses, and many have died during the wait.  In ...