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Letters / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP March 2007
... lot like that parable in which the emperor has no clothes. Health care bureaucrats and hospital administrators keep ... started a new strategy: they only have to look within the health region for an available bed and if one does not exist, ... of adverse outcomes would shift toward administrators and health bureaucrats, where I believe it truly belongs. After ...
Letters / BY: Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC March 2007
... Disease Outcome Quality Initiative (KDOQI) guidelines. BC Health and the BCMA Guidelines and Protocols Advisory ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2007
... that compulsion, I note the news items that have a health focus in case there’s something there that I want to ... and I don’t mean to diminish their importance to our health care system. However, in my opinion, this legislation, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Garth M. Evans, March 2007
... for this period are currently being performed by public health staff. The public health officials in the Fraser Health Authority and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC March 2007
... a back lesion in December 2004. She was otherwise in good health and was receiving daily L-thyroxine, enalapril, and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2007
... has been a corresponding increase in cross-cultural mental health services and community resources. The number of ethnic ... offered by nine Vancouver Coastal community mental health teams has been increasing steadily over the past ... TCM can address by bringing the body back into harmony and health. [1]   Many ethnic patients have strong beliefs in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: William J. Kierans, BA, MA March 2007
... age, [1]  these charts provide physicians and other health care professionals with additional, clinically ... newborns. They will also provide BC physicians and other health care professionals with a useful supplement to the ... mix in BC, the availability of medical care and other health-related services for infants, and the context in which ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, April 2007
... in all manner of things. Enjoy your retirement in good health with Melanie and your family at what you have ...
News / BY: Tara Lyon April 2007
... the issues not only of those afflicted but also of the health care professionals forced to the front lines. So maybe ... as a member of the Order of Canada for his services to health.  In 1996 Dr Penny left a thriving practice in ... program at Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health. He continues to practise there today and also serves ...
MDs To Be / BY: Lee MacKay, BSc, April 2007
One solution to our health care crisis doesn’t involve a radical reconfiguration of the health care system or a two-tiered approach, but is simply a ... for our socialized medicare system in the first place: the health cooperative. With privately funded health care making ...