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Clinical Articles / BY: Marion Thomas, PhD, September 2009
Clinicians in BC today have a unique opportunity to advance patient care. ... advice about patient consent and ethics. Partnering with BC Clinical Genomics Network, physicians in BC are beginning to apply genomic technology to address ...
Back Page / BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP, September 2009
... for our new son’s life in the Special Care Nursery at BC Children’s Hospital--at that moment he was the sickest baby in BC. That next month and the individual moments that went ... other sister and I realized that the postpartum staff at BC Women’s had mistaken her for my (life) partner.  I will ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Tom Kosatsky, MD, MPH September 2009
... effects. An appendix provides a guide to interpreting BC air-quality advisories and the new Air Quality Health ... many web-accessible references, can be downloaded at  www.bc.lung.ca  or  www.bccdc.ca . It was mailed to BC physicians this summer. Here are some highlights. The ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2009
... its endeavor to be a publication that the physicians of BC can be proud of. This is your Journal and your input is ... Broadway, Vancouver, V6J 5A4) or e-mailed ( journal@bcma.bc.ca ). I might have forgotten to mention our web site ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB September 2009
... Financial sustainability is now a legal requirement in our BC Medicare Protection Act (MPA). With respect to this, the BC government is clearly in violation of its own law. The MPA ... country has such a law, and, in this respect, the BC government is almost certainly in violation of the Charter ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, September 2009
Latest PSP module to launch across BC in September—open to all GPs A new Practice Support ... all of whom are on the front line of mental health care in BC. “Family physicians screen, diagnose, and treat about ... and aims to meet the needs of about 700 GPs across BC. PSP is a program of the joint BCMA-Ministry of Health ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, September 2009
... it pertains to injuries their patients have suffered. In BC, ICBC is the only insurance provider for basic vehicle ... of the MVA, when they are most beneficial. ICBC and the BC Chiropractic Association have recently negotiated a ... are also available to any injured party with a valid BC driver’s licence, any household member of the owner of a ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... in Whitecourt, Alberta, moving 1 year later to Burns Lake, BC, where he remained for 9 years. He was involved in the ...
Letters / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2009
... the functionality of EMRs and physician adoption in BC. First, many physicians in BC are making extraordinary use of very powerful ... Health. Interior Health is in fact leading the way in BC and Canada by providing electronic delivery of not only ...
Letters / BY: Bernie Littlejohn, September 2009
... and he has been honored for their development by the BC and Canadian psychiatric associations. He certainly got ...