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Letters / BY: N.P. Blair, MD, June 2009
... PITO is making an effort to make EMRs useful to BC specialists. Please see " Specialists and EMR adoption ” ...
Letters / BY: Ivor McMahen, MD, June 2009
... should really have read “Assessing EMR’s readiness for BC physicians.” I’m definitely not an expert, but I have ... world will beat a path to your door” is as true as ever. BC doctors are not exactly beating a path to the EMR door, ...
News June 2009
“Each year at BC Children’s, we treat nearly 500 sports-related injuries, ... Dr Ran Goldman, Emergency Department medical director at BC Children’s Hospital. Other injuries treated at BC Children’s over the spring and summer months include ...
Obituaries June 2009
... when he entered the formal banquet as president of the BC Surgical Society in Penticton in 1972 to find a life-sized ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, PhD July/August 2009
... CPD needs, the authors in­vited rural physicians across BC to share their opinions and to outline the challenges they ... the needs and challenges of rural physicians not only in BC, but also more generally in Canada and other countries. ... surveys were distributed to rural practitioners throughout BC (see the  Figure ),[ 8 ] 307 GPs and 141 specialists ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tarek Khalil, MPH, MD, MCFP, July/August 2009
... pas­sed. Subsequently, 5 of the 6 IMGs who took the BC CaRMS as­sessment were offered residencies and the 2 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gregory D. Deans, MD, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2009
... unpredic­table and S-OIV may undergo further mutation. In BC, ongoing surveillance, including monitoring for severe ... S-OIV can be found on the BCCDC web site ( www.bccdc.ca ). BC Centre for Disease Control Swine-origin influenza virus: ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Margaret Yandel, RD, July/August 2009
BC has used the new Public Health Act to restrict ... the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport announced that BC will be the first province in Canada to restrict ... fat in all food prepared, served, or offered for sale in BC food service establishments. There is a significant and ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, July/August 2009
... are paid for by ICBC and not the Medical Services Plan of BC (MSP)? Ultimately, they are. Pur­suant to the Canada ...
Letters / BY: Shefali Raja, BSc, July/August 2009
The recommendations in the HealthLink BC files have been developed based on BC and Canadian evidence and data indicating safe and at-risk ... human body mercury levels and consumption levels. The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Ministry of ...