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President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, January/February 2007
... step toward training sufficient numbers of physicians in BC. The increased number of medical students and residents ... around the province for part of their education. Doctors who were already teaching are being asked to do more, ... Ethics addresses teaching in two areas. In a section about doctors’ fundamental responsibilities, it states that we ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2007
Doctors as individuals are for the most part emotionally ... this problem and by so doing forced the government and BC’s doctors to look at establishing several satellite medical ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP January/February 2007
... is a project this committee participated in with the BC Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA) where physicians ... only 6 weeks, it illustrates the importance of the role doctors play in health promotion. Funding for a similar ... on this as part of the new fee agreement. Also, the BC Healthy Living Alliance, which is putting together a ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2007
... are right), who is going to guide them? My guess is that doctors are going to be asked to do the guiding, get little ... training and experience that they simply don’t have. BC has yet to follow Alberta into this new territory. The ... legal and ethical ramifications of doing so for BC’s doctors and pharmacists suggest that such legislation would ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2007
... states that she has good data that only 40% of patients in BC with diabetes mellitus are getting good care and that an ... to individuals with diabetes and heart disease and to the doctors who are caring for them. Following publication of ... in the Sun article Dr Ballem said she is not critical of doctors, who she believes are conscientious and are generally ...
News / BY: Tara Lyon April 2007
... Heritage Society, 1011 456 Moberly Road, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4L7, tel/fax: 604 224-3607, or e-mail  ... of 4 years of research focusing on procedures that new doctors working in remote areas will not have learned in any ... my point of view, was the lack of integration of family doctors in the community and of hospital-based physicians ...
MDs To Be / BY: Lee MacKay, BSc, April 2007
... the answer to the woes of the public health care system in BC, the issue of how best to fix the problems being faced by ... health care professional for their needs, thereby allowing doctors to spend their time treating the patients most in need of their specialized care. This allows doctors to meet two fundamental patient concerns: first, ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2007
... publication you and the majority of your colleagues in BC take the time to read.  I just can’t help tapping into ... the doctor’s hockey tournament in Vernon every year when doctors of all stripes come together from all over BC (and ... bright light to anyone looking for an example of where doctors have been successful in designing team-building ...
Editorials April 2007
... better system today. We have a current funding issue in BC that is just one symptom of a sickness that has overcome ... medicare, my GP would get paid $64.56. In economic terms, doctors are exposed to a both a free market and inflation ... but not with respect to revenues.  Both patients and doctors have become victims of the rationing of resources ...
News / BY: Bill Rife, MD, May 2007
... available on the members’ side of its web site ( www.sgp.bc.ca) . SGP members can access this template and further ... name in lowercase letters in the “Password” field. The BC Ministry of Health, Population Health and Wellness ... These new immunization fees provide a mechanism to pay doctors for immunizations given, encourage accurate and ...