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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, September 2008
... he says. “When I attended this session I saw people debating and learning from each other—I saw family ...
Editorials / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, September 2008
... a milestone in the history of health care in BC. For people in underserved areas of the province, the reasons for ... hockey arena in Prince George in 2000, when nearly 7000 people gathered to protest a critical lack of rural health ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2008
... information at that point was coming from drug detail people, collegial conversations in the OR change room, and an ... tad too long, and although I will miss the action and the people at the BCMJ, I’m making the call before someone else ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD September 2008
... to produce vitamin D in our skin from October to March. People with darker skin, those who don’t go into the sun often, those who cover their skin, and people over 50 years may require supplements.  • Current ...
Back Page / BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP September 2008
... the money. The biggest untapped source of money? We, the people. We often see references to the need for people to take more responsibility for their own health care. ... in order to pay doctor and hospital bills. In fact, most people do not generate large medical bills in any one year, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark R.C. Dickeson, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2008
... be amazing. I learned that the town of just more than 4000 people remains loyal to its Russian Douk­hobor roots, with a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP September 2008
... from a qualified applicant pool of more than 700.  Young people in BC had fewer opportunities to become physicians than young people in other parts of Canada. And in spite of an increase ... BC. • Increase access to medical education for BC young people, including rural and Aboriginal youth who are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barry Thorneloe (VFMP), MD September 2008
... way too much time in the same room with a small group of people, and everybody knows your name.  We had been medical ... we managed to pull off the experiment conceived by 5000 people—a medical program in Prince George was now ... imposed on us by rules that work well for keeping 200 people in line, but are perhaps a little rigid for governing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) September 2008
... and specialists translate into significant problems for people living in those communities.[ 1 ]  The Northern ... first integrated clerkships in towns of fewer than 10000 people started in the fall of 2007. Expanding the medical ... underserved areas.  Until then, there are thousands of people across the province—from small community groups ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD October 2008
... everyone’s advantage for each of us, physicians and lay people alike, to do our homework and determine each ...