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Physician Spotlight / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, May 2010
... 14 years of age, I chose to study sciences and completed my master’s in pathology. At 16 I was not old enough to ... medical school in India, so I moved to Canada to continue my studies. What influenced your decision to come to Canada? ... is vital. I’m excited that Royal Columbian, my own hospital, will now have students so I can get more involved ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2010
The university says I am. My job description, such as it is, insists I am. My CV documents the talks and seminars that I have given over ... though it affects the clinical deliverables and the hospital resources required. There is no unique value ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2010
... kind of nuisance. I’m talking about being a nuisance to my health authority. I have been suspicious for a while now that my authority would rather I didn’t exist. Think about it. ... perfect fiscal dream world would be a virtual web-based hospital. Virtual patients wouldn’t take up real beds, ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD June 2010
... closely resembled the agony of listening to a patient in my office with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia who ... year. However, it did take roughly three months for the hospital to consistently call my locum regarding inpatients on my BCMA days, and even now ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG July/August 2010
In my regular encounters with medical students during their ... general level of maturity and accomplishment. Like most of my contemporaries, I am extremely grateful that I entered ... let us park in the “patients only” section of the hospital car park. Life is so unfair. —TCR Editorials How ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... a doctor? I know you have health care in your family. Yes, my father is a retired pediatrician and my mother was a nurse, and her father a GP/surgeon in ... first job at age 15 was as a janitor in the Royal Jubilee Hospital operating rooms. I was drawn to medicine because it ...
MDs To Be / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, September 2010
... was shocked to hear that less than half of the nine had no hospital insurance. Some of the uninsur­ed even had multiple ... cover more than half of the monthly premium, and to my knowledge a reasonable number of students and unemployed ... basic understanding of health care economics bolstered my respect for how I use and access health care resources. A ...
Letters / BY: Jim Battershill, MD October 2010
One hears frequently through the press about nosocomial (hospital) or iatrogenic (doctor-induced) diseases these days. ... cause for horror and embarrassment by all the staff of the hospital. One of my fondest memories is of practical advice such as “the ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD October 2010
... The work is varied and can change on very short notice. My practice is compressed into 2 days per week with the remaining time spent at the BCMA office. My patients and my office assistant, Rosemary, have been very ... of the assessment patients receive when they present in BC hospital emergency departments after traumatic brain ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD October 2010
... He ate up interns and residents at Vancouver General Hospital and Shaughnessy Veteran Hospital every morning for ... used today. As a GP in Williams Lake, I re­ferred most of my difficult cases to Hammy or Hec. In 1961, on a Tuesday (my day off) in May, I was called to go to One-Eyed Lake in ...