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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2007
... footprint this sounds like a good way to rationalize my SUV. —JAW Correction—pandemic preparedness In the ... the integration of family doctors in the community and of hospital-based physicians into the planning and the exercise. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carolyn Steinberg, MD, FRCPC, May 2007
... food. • Criterion D. The onset must be before age 6. In my experience, the requirement of significant failure to gain ... distress, and are manifested by anticipatory distress. In my own clinical practice, this classification system has been ... of this.  Johnny is a 3-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital after failing to maintain his growth curve. Johnny ...
Letters / BY: Hugh H. Macartney, MB, FRCP, June 2007
... access to physician offices, emergency rooms, and hospital departments across BC. The service is underused by ... of compulsions. Any reference to compulsions stops me in my tracks, and incites an overwhelming need to check, clean, ...
Letters / BY: Jeff Lynskey, MD, June 2007
... have been in the same practice for 19 years. I have active hospital privileges. At our hospital the specialists (except ... until 2 years ago I did maternity care. I am on call for my patients 24 hours a day. My work week averages about 55 hours. Family practice is in ...
Letters / BY: Barbara J. Kane, MD, June 2007
... preceding the interactions with them and had been to the hospital on previous occasions. The third had stabbed another ... needed acute psychiatric treatment. BC Children’s Hospital, with its extended waiting list, is not suitable for ... resources for their patients, we would ask them to e-mail my secretary at  emily_moliere@yahoo.com  with general ...
ICBC / BY: Martin Ray, MD, June 2007
At 4 p.m. one Friday afternoon, my receptionist asked me to fit in a patient who had been in ... a motor vehicle accident (MVA) that morning. He was at a hospital emergency room where there was a 5-hour wait.  Bob (not his real name) had been my patient for 20 years. He had called earlier, but I was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patty Daly, MD, FRCPC June 2007
... will I know when a pandemic strain of influenza arrives in my area? • What infection control precautions should I take in my office when a pandemic is declared? • Should I provide ... pandemic influenza will not require a physician visit or hospital admission. To ensure appropriate disposition of ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, July/August 2007
... that I become your president. Like many, if not all, of my predecessors my feelings are mixed. Making the change from 33 years of ... is that fewer and fewer family physicians are keeping hospital privileges. As a result, there is a growing ...
News July/August 2007
... Am I biased? Probably. I have long admired the work of my Providence Health Care colleague. I have had the privilege ... Richmond Early Childhood Mental Health Program Richmond Hospital, Dept. of Psychiatry 7000 Westminster Highway  ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, September 2007
... CME credits” ( BCMJ  2007;49[3]:109-110 ), which cites my conference lectures on homeopathy as inappropriate CME ... in which homeopathy was used in an NHS Teaching Trust hospital.[ 6 ] All of these patients had been referred by their general practitioners or hospital consultants. Positive health changes were reported ...