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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, ...
Letters / BY: Jeff Lynskey, MD, June 2007
... in 1986–88 in Alberta. I currently practise in rural BC. I have been in the same practice for 19 years. I have ... currently about 4700 GPs and 3800 specialists working in BC. With respect to overhead, data from the recent overhead ... have a duty to their own members under the Society Act of BC.  There are a multitude of views about income disparity ...
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 ... This request comes from our experience working in northern BC as psychiatrists on call for all ages of patients. ... of these children needed acute psychiatric treatment. BC Children’s Hospital, with its extended waiting list, is ...
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 ... climate change will have on health and disease patterns in BC.  In the immediate future, the Council will be ...
Back Page / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, June 2007
... Henniger, Derek Royle, and Bas Gowd were the vanguard of BC’s regional colposcopy program, spending the majority of ... Royle, and Basavana Gowd when I was a resident at the BC Cancer Institute. I often came across chart notes or ... postgraduate training in Spokane, Washington, and at the BC Cancer Institute. After completing his specialty ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC June 2007
... will be distributed to priority groups based on the BC Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan. These groups are the ... it prior to any H5N1 pandemic.  [17]   According to the BC Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan, organization and ... [20]  Pneumococcal vaccination rates in adults in BC at present are inappropriately low. Antiviral drugs There ...
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 influenza planning information ( www.health.gov.bc.ca/pandemic/planning.html ) along with links to federal ... these twin obligations of response and communications. The BC Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan describes the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2007
... a pandemic, and Drs Mackie and Lu discuss the need for BC’s health authorities to have a strong relationship with ... local health authority or to visit the web sites of the BC Ministry of Health ( www.health.gov.bc.ca/pandemic ), the Public Health Agency of Canada ( ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC June 2007
... for a shorter period.  In the event of a pandemic in BC, the medical health officers in each health authority, ... Public Health Agency of Canada, in conjunction with the BC Centre for Disease Control and local public health, will ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patty Daly, MD, FRCPC June 2007
... months before a new pandemic influenza strain arrives in BC. During that period, physicians will receive notifications ... it is unlikely that initial cases of pandemic influenza in BC will be identified from among returning travelers or ... the annual influenza vaccination that is provided free in BC to all health care workers. This will reduce workplace ...