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ICBC / BY: Sonny Senghera, September 2008
Car crashes kill and injure more BC kids than any other cause. Thankfully, booster seats can ... injury by 67%. With the support of stakeholders like the BC Medical Association, the pro­vincial government has ... reviewing child safety seat regulations, and we are asking doctors to help with the transition over the coming months. ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, September 2008
... and quality of life. The benefits are also there for doctors and medical office assistants, says Dr Shafonsky, who ... year I’ve seen a deterioration in primary care, with doctors feeling unrecognized, overworked, and overwhelmed,” ... For more information, visit  www.practicesupport.bc.ca . —Liza Kallstrom, Lead, Change Management & Practice ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) September 2008
... with an opport­unity to ask questions about what kind of doctors we should be trying to educate. As in the rest of Canada, BC suffers not only from a shortage of physicians, but also ... were conceived on the basis of well-accepted evidence that doctors tend to settle near where they train[ 2 , 3 ] and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert W. Armstrong, MD, PhD, FRCPC, September 2008
The BC government has fund­ed a provincial medical school linked ... system during the last 30 years.  They are not unique to BC, as demonstrated by recent calls for broad educational ... complex organizations. Little training is given to equip doctors for this, and the difficulty that many consequently ...
Letters / BY: Barbara J. Kane, MD, November 2008
... of the patients, but be­cause the Community Living BC system is so unfriendly, unwieldy, and difficult to work ... but also for the patients, their families, other doctors, and other caregivers. The recommendations in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... of extremely premature infants.  We know that in BC survival rates range from 6% at 22 weeks of gestational ... care? Singh and colleagues demonstrated how inaccurate doctors are in the delivery room when it comes to identifying ... for the individual baby. Research has established that doctors in the delivery room are inaccurate when ...
Index December 2008
... (*) indicates a clinical review article. Back Page (bp), BC Centre for Disease Control (cdc), Editorials (ed), ... Myckatyn M: Minoru Medical Education Society: The new doctors’ lounge? (pu) 7:406  Nasvadi G: Older ... L: Physicians, public health, and immunizations—are doctors missing the point? (cohp) 4:189; Bill C-51: A small ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2008
... provincial by-elections, and municipal elections. BC will soon face a provincial election. Having spent years ... more challenging than the real thing), I am convinced that doctors must become even more politically active. There are ... and politics. A May 2008 Angus-Reid poll placed doctors—with a 94% rating—number one in terms of ...
Index December 2008
... to the editor (c), Editorials (ed), Back Page (bp), BC Centre for Disease Control (cdc), College Library (lib), ... Principles of Internal Medicine (Richardson DR) 6:332 How Doctors Think (pu) (Richardson DR) 2:71 Jack McCreary: ... 6:298  Physicians, public health, and immunizations—are doctors missing the point? (Oppel L) 4:189 -D- DIABETES ...
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