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Obituaries / BY: J. Patrick McConkey, MD, May 2008
... congenital hip dislocation surveillance program in British Columbia.  He retired in 1989 to pursue his ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... from the government’s process to elicit opinions from British Columbians about their health care system.  The ... public health care system that delivers services to all British Colum­bians regardless of where they live, their ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2008
... also finds itself doctor-deficient, and Irish doctors, British doctors, and South African doctors are no longer ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... practice in a hospital in the lower mainland of British Columbia.  Making my rounds one morning in the ... “We haven’t decided yet. We spend our summers in British Columbia and in the winter you will find us in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
For most people in British Columbia, the family physician provides an entry ... through a needs assessment conducted by the University of British Columbia’s Division of Continuing Professional ... mailed to a random sample of approximately one-third of British Columbia’s family physicians. Overall res­ponse ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara Poole Lane, MPA May 2008
... cancer.  Despite the decline in mortality rates, women in British Columbia have expressed deep concern about how the ... Clinical Articles Breast cancer screening and diagnosis in British Columbia ...
News&Notes June 2008
... a system of audit and inspections has been established in British Columbia, it is necessary to re­view the history of ... BC (initially on an entirely private insurer basis), the British Columbia Medical Association was very much involved ... 1968 when medicare became universally available in BC.  British Columbia was the first jurisdiction in North America ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
... with, among others, Jennett.[ 2 ]  An editorial in the British Journal of Psychiatry[ 3 ] also described symptoms of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... of all police-reported fatal motor vehicle collisions in British Columbia—127 people were killed and 3400 were ... offense.  Results from the first study, undertaken in British Columbia, found that 11% of injured, intoxicated ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM June 2008
... progressive neoplasia.  HPV vaccines prevent infection. British Columbia will start offering HPV vaccine to girls in ...