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Letters / BY: E. Pankratz, MD, January/February 2010
... A few years ago I had surgery at Langley Memorial Hospital; it happened to be Christmastime. My experience was bad right from the start. As Dr Richardson ... rude, and lacking in sympathy.  The only exception was my surgeon and an internist who saw me later for a ...
MDs To Be / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, January/February 2010
... … and languages It was June 2008. I had finished my last clinical exam and was on the way to Zurich, ... school. I had the special privilege of learning how a hospital was managed in a European country. It was a surgical ... station was general surgery. I was advised by one of my colleagues to study well before entering the operating ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2010
... both to our facility for treatment, and back to their home hospital once they have stabilized or improved. As a result ... treated depressive disorder, returning to his or her home hospital prior to discharge, perhaps to assume a responsible ... that we do need to make.  The article in the BCMJ in my opinion adds little clarity and only feeds into ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2010
... but when put together in the right proportions it makes up my hospital. It is a very generic building, but I have a ... think. What I find most amazing is that the population in my community has grown by 50% and my hospital has been able ...
News&Notes / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD April 2010
“If your hospital is at sea level on the equator, expect to operate at ... doctors on the South Pacific island of Tanna, Vanuatu, my wife and I found the quotation above to be quite an ... right away to see a woman with a postpartum hemorrhage.  My wife Lisa, still in her wet swimsuit, jumped into the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ellamae Stadnick MD, MSc, FRCPC, May 2010
... recipients.  On average patients spend 2 weeks in the hospital after transplantation, including 3 to 5 days in the ... be referred to the Pre-Transplant Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital ( Table 1 ). Patients are required to undergo a ... or cyclosporine), and a purine synthesis inhibitor such as my­cophenolate mofetil.[ 4 ] In the absence of rejection, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2010
... home with the wife but I’m afraid I can’t hide you in hospital any longer. The hospital Bed Needs Report signs are ... about me? You think you have problems? I now have to move my in-laws out of room 408 and let them stay at my house.” These signs have become a regular occurrence ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, May 2010
... are the days when you could see an order for AOL in the hospital chart. You don’t know what AOL stands for? In that ... manner. ICBC medical community liaison position This is my last article for the BCMJ and I thank those of you who ... The in­teraction has added a positive dimension to my role.  The position of ICBC medical community liaison is ...
News&Notes / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2010
... and out of the servers to do the backup. I had to take off my rings because the heat could burn my fingers through my rings if I accidentally touched a wire. ... on the COSTAR system developed at Brig­ham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Over the years it was advanc­ed to ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2010
... electronically receiving lab results, imaging reports, and hospital reports directly into the EMR enhances care and ... possible without receiving the test results directly into my EMR. I am able to check the lab results late on a Friday night and then I can call my patients to say that the results were good, thereby ...