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President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, June 2007
... but I believe that a more responsive and reliable health care system would ease some of your pain. Further, I believe that the BCMA can contribute greatly to the health policy changes that we need. Given all of the above, ... doctors work together constructively to advocate for the health care system, and to direct their professional ...
Obituaries / BY: Michele Matthews (née Marinker), June 2007
... to be one of the 13 original doctors of the Algoma Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—referred to by ... those who have contributed to the development of the Group Health Centre (GHC). He and ever-beautiful Maureen moved to ...
Obituaries / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2007
... the threat it posed to his own patients as well as public health. Thirty years ago, in 1977, Dr Peter Hoogewerf, ... sparked fears of another pandemic. While public health experts debated whether to launch an immunization ...
Obituaries / BY: Michael Cook, MD, June 2007
... patients at Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant/Midtown Mental Health, she balanced her public service with private ...
News / BY: Fiona Youatt, June 2007
... representatives from the BCMA and the Ministry of Health. Physicians will be the primary testers of how well ... vendor selection that the BCMA and the Ministry of Health are currently working on. Our work is focused on ... will develop and implement an interoperable electronic health record (iEHR) for the government that will change the ...
Letters / BY: Jeff Lynskey, MD, June 2007
... physicians, as well as having the most effective impact on health policy, exists if all BC physicians are members of one ...
ICBC / BY: Martin Ray, MD, June 2007
... maintain, and disseminate results of systematic reviews on health care interventions. Here are the results: • The 2006 ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2007
... everyone to the impending implosion in publicly funded health care. It’s just that the message inevitably gets ... big boat and an iceberg sums up the collision course our health care system is on.  Once we have the right messenger, ...
Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD June 2007
... be becoming rampant, and I think this affects our mental health. You may say, then, now he is speaking about two ... know anything about. One is crime and the other is mental health. This is probably true; however, it is concerning to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD June 2007
Here are some of the issues and solutions to health care problems the Council on Health Promotion (COHP) has developed over the past 50 years: ... legislation, mandatory infant car seats, seniors’ health issues, healthy living initiatives, childhood obesity ...