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Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2010
... November 2009, just before the holiday shopping season.[ 1 ] It reported that “so far in 2009, CPSC has recalled nearly 1.3 million toys or other children’s products (including ...
MDs To Be / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, January/February 2010
... in a European country. It was a surgical rotation with 1 week being spent on a different subspecialty.  First up ...
News January/February 2010
... BC government will implement the harmonized sales tax on 1 July 2010. In response, the BCMA commissioned an ...
News January/February 2010
... Leave Program to a full Parental Leave Program effective 1 April 2010. The current Pregnancy Leave Program provides a ... to take a leave from practice beginning on or after 1 April 2010, you can contact Ms Lorie Arlitt, Paren­tal ... can be reached at 604 638-2882, or toll free in BC at 1 800 665-2262 ext. 2882 or by email at  larlitt@bcma.bc.ca ...
News January/February 2010
... Services Committee (GPSC) web site was launched on 1 February 2010. BC’s family physicians now have a new ...
News January/February 2010
... ljanzen@bcma.bc.ca , or call 604 638-2877, toll free at 1 800 665-2262, local 2877. News Save the date: BCMA Annual ...
News&Notes / BY: Fred Bass, MD, DSc January/February 2010
... of any form of stop-smoking treatment.[ 1 ] • Nicotine gum, 4 mg and 2 mg, when used by smokers ... odds ratios (compared to a placebo gum) of 6.0 and 1.8 respectively for continuous 6-month abstinence.[ 2 ] ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2010
... for air transport in British Columbia” in the BCMJ.[ 1 ] The article, although helpful in clarifying expectations ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, January/February 2010
... type—sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic, and choleric.[ 1 ] Being ill meant having an imbalance of the four humors. ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD January/February 2010
... the BCMA’s Olympic Torch Relay Team will have run its 1 kilometre trek around Olympic Park in Whistler and be ...