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News October 2009
In May, Providence Health Care opened the Rapid Access Breast Clinic at Mount ... breast abnormality as determined by a Vancouver Coastal Health Area physician. The Rapid Access Breast Clinic uses ...
Obituaries / BY: S. William A. Gunn, FRCSC, October 2009
... Institute, where he worked under Penfield; the World Health Organization, where he was member of the Neurological ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, October 2009
... of the practice (e.g., role of the local and provincial health authorities, nature of patient-provider ... working with a number of these specialists, the regional health authorities, and the PITO Steering Committee to ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD October 2009
... that we are left with one thought only—it will be bad. Health Canada, BC’s Public Health Office, the BC Centre for Disease Control and our health authorities have released guidelines for citizens to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS November 2009
... by anesthesiologists, family physicians, nurses, and other health care workers.  Out of 102 colorectal resections ... stay.[ 4-8 ] At $1000+ per patient-bed day in the Canadian health care system, a 2-day hospital stay offers significant ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dan MacCarthy, MB, BCh, BAO, November 2009
... the program and inviting physicians to engage with their health authorities. F unding for the progam was provided ... efficient, improve access to care, achieve better patient health outcomes, improve the patients’ experience of their ... provincially and delivered regionally. The five provincial health authorities each have support teams in place to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC November 2009
... has developed information on air pollution and health for BC physicians. The materials are available at the ... for more information on the impacts of air pollution on health. The primer gives information on the health effects of air pollution, common air pollutants and ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2009
... The kind of attitude I am talking about is that of our health care providers, technicians, and support workers. I ... and various assessments. My patient works in the health care field and he is a reasonable, noncomplaining kind ... their job, but shouldn’t there be more?  I realize that health care providers working in areas such as emergency ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, November 2009
... medical office assistants on the front line of mental health care in BC. Family physicians screen, diagnose, and treat about 85% of the province’s mental health patients. Launched in late September, the mental health module offers family physicians specialized skills ...
Letters / BY: George Kljajic, MD, November 2009
... can achieve. I wonder whether the BCMA, the Ministry of Health, and the BC community have done enough to take ... and being physically active as the very essence of health and well-being. We have the opportunity to promote ... We need to engage our medical community, Ministry of Health, health institutions, universities and colleges, and ...