WorkSafeBC /
BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP
September 2007
... Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia at www.ohsah.bc.ca , choose “Disease Prevention” from the ...
President's Comment /
BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB,
September 2007
... in six areas of importance to physicians in BC: prescription drug expenditures, Pharmacare program, drug ... Strategy. Included in the recommendations on BC’s Pharmacare program is the Reference Drug Program ... of reference drug pricing for all drug classes in the BC Reference Drug Program, both current and future, on a ...
Obituaries /
BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD
September 2007
... Reg and Anita migrated west to the Lower Mainland of BC in 1951, where he set up practice in New Westminster and ...
Obituaries /
BY: Eric Pasquet, MD,
September 2007
... Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Andre F. Pasquet of Terrace, BC, passed away peacefully in June. He graduated from Queens ... approach to medicine. In 1973 he moved to Terrace, BC, where he developed the anesthesia department at Mills ...
News /
BY: Geraldine Vance, APR,
September 2007
... for challenges faced by full-service family physicians in BC—the GPSC has developed a two-pronged strategy: financial ... in full-service family practice in underserved areas of BC. Practice Support Program: Beyond incentives ... Modules are developed by the BCMA, MoH, and IMPACT BC (Healthy Heart Society). Examples of topics are advanced ...
Letters /
BY: A. Krisman, MD
September 2007
... my letter-writing days were over, but the headline “BC’s caesarean birth rate highest in country” (Vancouver ...
Letters
September 2007
... article “Aspirated foreign bodies in children: BC Children’s Hospital emergency room protocol” (BCMJ ... be considered. These conditions preclude the use of the BC Children’s Hospital Aspirated Foreign Body Protocol but ...
Interviews /
BY: Jay Draper
September 2007
... medical degree from Edinburgh Medical School, coming to BC for additional training in pediatrics. He spent one year ... But after 6 months he realized he’d like to return to BC. He took over a practice in Terrace because of the ... And then there’s the problem that everyone in BC has, and that’s wait lists and bed shortages. When you ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
September 2007
... made my classmates and me wonder which small, northern BC community we would be forced to practise in. I remember ...
College Library /
BY: Linda Clendenning
September 2007
... encountered disorders. The College Library provides BC physicians with access to this resource through its online ...