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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... 11% of injured, intoxicated drivers who are treated in hospital are convicted of impaired driving.[ 2 ] In the ... registry for injured, alcohol-impaired drivers admitted to hospital in the Calgary Health Region. The conviction rate ... and be told that they were continuing to drive in spite my advice.  In 2005, BC introduced a remedial program that ...
News&Notes / BY: Mel Petreman, MD, July/August 2008
... to increase the pleasures of medical practice…  * * * My group of five general practice associates has, since ... March 1980, appointment scheduling was added, to include hospital, office and private appointments, holidays, days ...
Letters / BY: David J. Brant, MD, July/August 2008
... published in the April issue of the BCMJ resonate with my own [ 2008;50:123-124 ], and more particularly with my own experience both in treatment/management of an addict ... mentors (Dr Larson, medical director at the psychiatric hospital in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) observed that the ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS July/August 2008
... I know.” “Oh, ah, er, good. Now why are you in the hospital? I mean, what all led up to you being here?” The ... “Well done, young man. Good luck to you!” Whew! Oh my God. Holy cow, never again. The rest of the exam was a ...
Editorials / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC September 2008
I expect that this will be my last opinionated rant for the editorial pages of the BCMJ. ... stayed on this most enjoyable of medical committees until my retirement a year or two ago. I was called back last year ... the care at that site. Hence the closure of other hospital beds and the limiting of the number of operating and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark R.C. Dickeson, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2008
... front of me appeared those fateful words that would change my life forever: The University of British Columbia, ... I wandered about in a daze until I bumped into one of my classmates. “Where are you going?” he asked, in ... also found the breadth of services provided by the GP-only hospital staff to be amazing. I learned that the town of just ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB October 2008
... years ago, I was not yet born; I was not even a twinkle in my father’s eye! I arrived on the scene when the Journal ... and front cover. I’m sure you get the message—this is my favorite journal. So when my colleague and friend DRR (a.k.a. “Little Dave”) approach­ed me in the hospital corridor a few months ago with “a proposition,” ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2008
It started in the night and I wasn’t even naked. My generalized abdominal pain gradually worsened but was only a mild ache by the morning. I vomited after eating my lunch and thought I must have the flu that my colleague ... must feel like,” I thought to myself.  Off to the hospital I went to do rounds, but interestingly I had to lift ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2008
... economic costs of low health literacy include staying in hospital up to 2 days longer, fewer doctor visits but more emergency and hospital visits, and an estimated $7.3 billion (1998 US ... should be able to answer the following questions: What is my main problem? What do I need to do about it? Why is it ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD December 2008
... things to be thankful for—among them the knowledge that my family is healthy and safe. This reality hit home a couple of months ago. Although my family is fine, I had a mishap that put me in a rigid neck ... and sent me on my way via helicopter to Vancouver General Hospital. Although funny to reflect on now, it was not a ...