ICBC /
BY: Martin Ray, MD,
May 2007
... up with ICBC staff and consulted with colleagues at the BC Medical Association (BCMA), Canadian Medical Protective ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Paul Hasselback, MD, FRCPC,
May 2007
Fresh air—it’s one of BC’s most well-known resources. But how do BC residents know if the air is actually clean or if it ... provincial and national health and environment partners, BC now has the first Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) in the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC
May 2007
... laboratory testing for HIV as described above. Under the BC Health Act, HIV is a reportable infection and all ... be in place for all types of POC HIV test kits in use in BC (i.e., quality control conducted by an organization ... external quality control measures. —M. Gilbert, MD, FRCP BC Centre for Disease Control —E. Wong, BSN, MBA Public ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Pratibha Reebye, MBBS, FRCPC,
May 2007
... the diagnosis. In the Infant Psychiatry Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH), approximately 8% (14/170) of ... and can be offered in group or one-to-one settings. At BC Children’s Hospital, we continue to facilitate groups ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Pratibha Reebye, MBBS, FRCPC,
May 2007
... disorder seen at the Infant Psychiatry Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital.” Preventive intervention Family ... can refer patients to the Infant Psychiatry Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital (604 875-2719) and the Alan Cashmore ... disorder seen at the Infant Psychiatry Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital Referral criteria Patients who are ...
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 ...
President's Comment /
BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD,
June 2007
... time and again by the diversity of the doctors of BC, and perhaps the differences between us make unity more ...
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 ...
Obituaries /
BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC
June 2007
... Peter Hoogewerf should appear in this theme issue of the BC Medical Journal dedicated to influenza and pandemic ... Peter established a circuit of sentinel physicians across BC to act as watchtowers—reporting weekly the proportion of ... nationally. It remained a matter of pride to Peter that BC physicians continued to participate in the sentinel ...
News /
BY: Fiona Youatt,
June 2007
... government regarding its selection of Sun Microsystems (BC) Inc. is a separate matter from the electronic medical ...