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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Dan MacCarthy, MB, BCh, BAO, March 2009
... programs developed by the GPSC, a joint BCMA–Ministry of Health Services committee aimed at renewing primary health care. As the latest GPSC offering, the Divisions help ... to an opportunity to influence decision making at the health authority and government level.” Other benefits that ...
Letters March 2009
... test. A doctor is supposed to help maintain a patient’s health, and a doctor needs the patient’s trust to do so. ... A doctor’s job is to maintain his or her patient’s health. The Superintendant of Motor Vehicles’ job is to ...
MDs To Be / BY: Gavin Tansley, March 2009
... as we were shown, for the first time, the quality of health care professionals in this province. I sat awestruck ... we were unified, not as students, but as members of the BC health care community. At the end of the day I felt like I ... of medicine will have only grown. Nearly everyone in the health care profession shares a common love of challenge, and ...
News / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD March 2009
... library as well any college or university library where health care professionals are taught. —LML News Book ...
News March 2009
... Medicine and Therapeutics, has been named Canada’s 2008 Health Researcher of the Year for Biomedical and Clinical ... Hayden will be presented with the Canadian Institutes of Health Re­search (CIHR) Michael Smith Prize, an award that recognizes innovation, creativity, and dedication to health research. Dr Hayden is a researcher in the area of ...
News March 2009
As of this month, patients need a referral from a health care professional for all Red Cross loans of basic ... safer when using equipment that has been prescribed by a health care professional. Many patient safety advocacy groups ... a written referral when sending patients to the Red Cross Health Equipment Loan Program for basic equipment. In some ...
News / BY: Steve Wharry, March 2009
... of issues that had traditionally been dealt with by health care managers and administrators. Twenty-seven years ... include medical expert, communicator, collaborator, health advocate, manager, scholar, and professional, and this ... the year and feature training in strategic planning, health human resource management, finance and economics, and ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2009
... hours ensuring that scope of practice expansion for other health providers is done in a reasonable way; chair of the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2009
... de­signed to improve services to injured workers, health care providers, and employers. As WorkSafeBC receives ... the claim, and, in most cases, pay worker benefits and health care provider billings. The CMS system allows ... 11 that are already available in the forms section of the Health Care Providers pages of the WorkSafeBC web site, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... has been identified as an essential component of health care reform in Canada.[ 1,2 ] EMRs have been shown to ... information at the point of care.[ 7 ] • Improving health delivery analysis through more efficient outcome ... both at the individual practice level and across the health system.[ 8 ] With increasing recognition that all ...