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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 ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... agreement would be more difficult to reach given that BC has a budget surplus. Public spending for health care in ... and many medications are not covered by Health Insurance BC, a situation about which participants in the Conversation ...
ICBC / BY: Anita Gill, May 2008
Every day there are close to 700 car crashes in BC. These crashes kill at least one person and result in more ... strategy will be supported by editorial columns in the BC Medical Journal. The articles will focus on timely issues ...
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 ... obstetrics.  MC4BC is working to reverse this trend—and BC physicians are taking advantage of the opportunity. Dr ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2008
... become a politically important item—at least here in BC where the current government has increased the size of the ... from? Historically, the rest of the country has supplied BC with large numbers of physicians who would rather carry an ... of the country suffers from exactly the same problem as BC and these climate-challenged regions are already drying up ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2008
... those nations are enviably high. Public health programs in BC do a creditable job of ensuring that infants and ... seatbelt legislation to smoking cessation, physicians in BC have led the way to keep patients from getting sick. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... highest rates seen in Canada over the last 10 years.  In BC, clusters of cases have occurred on reserves for decades. ... J. Cook, MD —R. Kevin Elwood, MD Division of TB Control BC Centre for Disease Control The burden of tuberculosis in Aboriginal communities in BC ...
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% +/- ... and 27% practised in a rural setting, as defined by BC’s Subsidiary Agreement for Physicians in Rural ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC, May 2008
... age 50.  More than 700 people die of CRC annually in BC alone, each losing an estimated 10 years of productive ... of public imaging facilities providing the service in BC. Any local population-based impact on CRC screening, ... will improve the currently poor screening rates in BC and Canada for a prevalent and deadly cancer. Competing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara Poole Lane, MPA May 2008
... see the process of obtaining a breast cancer diagnosis in BC as “emotionally troubling and structurally ... The lifetime risk of breast cancer is 1 in 9 for women in BC.[ 4 ] Approximately 2700 BC women are diagnosed with breast cancer annually.[ 5 ] ...