Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Greg Dines,
October 2009
... efforts to support full-service family practice in BC. Since its inception in 2002, the joint BCMA-MOHS ... $452 million on programs for physicians. “Family doctors are the backbone of our health system,” Health ... Chronic disease management Hundreds of thousands more BC patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure, and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD,
December 2009
... 50 to 69. Current participation of women aged 50 to 69 in BC is 49%.[ 1 ] One of the most effective ways to encourage ... not all patients comply, the Breast Tumour Group of the BC Cancer Agency surveyed BC family physicians about the ... that mammograms are painful. A recent survey of BC doctors indicates that some common patient misunderstandings ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC
December 2009
... 1 ] At least once every 3 days a physician in BC has to tell family members that their mother, father, son, ... done to prevent anyone else being killed in this manner. Doctors don’t generally tell the family that the main ... testing above 0.08 blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) in BC was above the rate for Canada as a whole.[ 4 ] While ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brian Evoy, PhD,
December 2009
... the revised program was working well—and many of the doctors felt that other programs weren’t necessary,” says ... back into discussions and will involve more of the local doctors before further developing other ideas.” Penticton ... Practice Services Committee, a joint program of the BC Medical Association and the Ministry of Health Services. ...
Letters /
BY: Geoffrey Ainsworth, MD
December 2009
... when I was working as an in-patient psychiatrist at BC Children’s Hospital. On page 349 the authors state, ... had an airway compromise or aspiration. I think the doctors of British Columbia need to know how sedated their ...