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News January/February 2010
... more information e-mail Ms Lorie Janzen at  ljanzen@bcma.bc.ca , or call 604 638-2877, toll free at 1 800 665-2262, ...
Obituaries / BY: Mark Schonfeld, MD, January/February 2010
... at UBC. He personally endowed many institutions in BC and elsewhere in Canada. Don really cared about people. He ... training and facilities. Don was extremely active in the BC Medical Association. He was a member of the Board of ... for outstanding contributions to the medical profession in BC, and this past year received the Canadian Medical ...
Obituaries / BY: James M. Tisdale, MD, January/February 2010
... of Excellence by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC in 2007. However, all was not seriousness in Roger’s ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2010
... people with psychiatric illness within the province of BC when distances require the use of air ambulance. At ... from throughout the northern and southern interiors of BC. We also run the Behavioural Stabilization and Assessment Program for the BC Neuropsychiatry Program, providing services for patients ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Stephen Wheeler, MD January/February 2010
... the guidelines.  These guidelines are an attempt for the BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) to transport psychiatric patients ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, January/February 2010
... 2300 years ago in the time of Hippocrates (~460–370 BC). He believed that existence was represented by the four ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD January/February 2010
... have been created to achieve this lofty goal: IMPACT BC, 2010 Legacies Now, and ActNow BC.  The BCMA’s Athletic and Recreation Committee has been working with ActNow BC providing pedometers to school children, to physicians and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC March 2010
... health care system, radiation oncologists from the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) established the Prostate ... in 1997. To date, over 2750 patients have received PB in BC, making it the largest program in Canada and one of the ... population-based published surgical outcomes from BC or Canada that we are aware of. External beam radiation ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S. Green, MD, FCFP March 2010
... with health authorities to set limits. For instance, in BC the Professional Association of Residents (PAR-BC) has negotiated a contract stipulating a 24-hour limit to ... the EU, and the Professional Association of Residents of BC has negotiated a contract stipulating a 24-hour limit to ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2010
... Later, a Canadian metal gun worm was used by hunters in BC to clear their muskets. A gun worm or primitive type of ... Okanagan was Leonard Norris, a Freemason, of Peachland, BC. It was likely that Jacques Creek was renamed Trepanier ...