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News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) January/February 2010
... treat minor emergencies—all for an additional fee.  In BC, the changes in pharmacists’ scope were more modest, but ... and dispense? It’s easy to forget that historically doctors did dispense, but this was given over to pharmacists ...
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 ... in those around him, including many physicians. Some doctors referred to his practices as “murderous” and his ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC March 2010
... unable to effect a cure in most cases. A group of Seattle doctors started performing PB in 1987, introducing much ... 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 ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, March 2010
... The module has also engaged representatives from the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development, Vancouver ... a strong working relationship between school counselors, doctors, and mental health teams to ensure effective care for ... a presession group average of 3.0.  Although all family doctors have received mental health training, Dr Oppel says ...
News / BY: Jeremy Daniels, March 2010
... patients.  The book should also likely be accessible to BC doctors’ patients, as it is written at approximately a ...
News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) March 2010
Doctors are often portrayed as tech­nophiles who make lavish ... the popular press and government health agencies, doctors are only experts at treating existing illnesses. ... is aligned with the above preconceived notion. In BC, aside from a new cardiovascular prevention fee item ...
News March 2010
In January, the BC Cancer Agency’s Screening Mammography Program (SMP) ... Fast Track Referral System (Fast Track), providing every BC physician with access to the program. The goal of Fast ... imaging following an abnormal mammography result. Now all doctors and SMP participants will automatically have access ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD March 2010
... the myriad of extremely ben­eficial programs for family doctors and their patients that the General Practice Services ... practice is quickly be­coming a solid cornerstone of BC’s health care system that provides fair compensation for ... designed to help improve the specialist care system in BC and to enhance specialist physician compensation, ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Diana June King, March 2010
In November 2009, we lost a giant of BC medicine. Dr Don Rix has left behind a legacy of ... it. He started a courier system to pick up samples from doctors’ offices and clinics (which had been sent through ... in our more remote communities to help keep trained doctors in those communities. His long relationship with BCIT ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, May 2010
Many family doctors in Bri­tish Columbia hold group medical visits to ... work in geriatric psychiatry. She is the first doctor in BC to hold group visits for patients with dementia and their ... the BC Ministry of Health and the BCMA. GPSC supports doctors by developing and implementing programs that improve ...