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Clinical Articles / BY: Stephan F. van Eeden, MD, PhD, FRCP, April 2008
... is unsuccessful.   Table 2  shows programs available in BC.  Pulmonary rehabilitation Pulmonary rehabilitation, a ... rehabilitation, only a small fraction of Canadian and BC patients qualifying for pulmonary rehabilitation have ... care planning. Competing interests The Pacific Lung Health Centre’s COPD program is part of the PRIISME chronic ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, May 2008
... no different.  In my 18 years of being involved with the BC Medical Association, only a handful of AGMs have been well ... best example was the 1980 AGM held in Penticton when the BC government introduced legislation to ban “balance ... as well as the recently opened state-of-the-art sports centre.  I think we can anticipate that the physicians of ...
News May 2008
... Theatre (part of the Van­couver International Film Centre) in Vancouver as part of its Documentary Film ... Wipe Out was produced by the Knowledge Network of BC, and will air on Knowledge Network on 9 June 2008. If ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... 1 ] Dr Albrecht outlined elegantly the assistance of the BC Poison Control Centre in the confirmation of the diagnosis and the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
Trail BC family physician Dr Blair Stanley is training to do ... and regain their obstetrical skills.  Maternity Care for BC (MC4BC), developed by the joint BCMA/Ministry of Health ... in his home community instead of traveling to an urban centre, which most training requires. “Trail was facing an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
... The Family Practice Oncology Net­work (FPON)[ 4 ] of the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) sought to understand the current ... of 25% and an accurate representation of the population of BC family practitioners (confidence interval 95% +/- ... BC College of Physicians and Surgeons online library, the Centre for Integrated Healing, and guidelines distributed by ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Navid Dehghani, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... the divisions of emergency medicine and otolaryngology at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) treated nine children with a ... bodies, we have developed the following guidelines for BC physicians. We are also working to complete two ... Figure 2 ). For affected children, care at a tertiary centre with a full array of pediatric bronchoscopic and ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2008
... please contact Johnson Inc. at Walnut Grove Commerce Centre, 9440 202nd Street, Suite 201, Langley, BC V1M 4A6 Tel: 604 881-8820 • Toll free: 888 412-8822 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Betty Tang, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... and inpatient mental health services are available in BC along with community health and social services, there ... is a new era. The last institution for adults with DD in BC was closed only 11 years ago. Community health services ... mental health services The Provincial Assessment Centre (PAC), located in Burnaby, is a 10-bed mental health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... 84 patients with soft tissue sarcomas were referred to the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA). Considering there are 111 family ... 5 ] less than 1% of family practice physicians in BC will encoun­ter a malignant soft tissue sarcoma each ... interventions prior to referral to a multidisciplinary centre have inferior outcomes.[ 1 - 4 ]  A multidisciplinary ...