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Proust for Physicians / BY: Marco Terwiel, MB, MD, CCFP, FCFP, June 2011
... past chief of staff and medical director of Ridge Meadows Hospital, and past president of the College of Family ... What do you consider your greatest achievement? Building my own home with my own hands from scratch. From design to finished product, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darcy Cox, PsyD, RPsych, ABPP, September 2011
... depressogenic automatic thought “Nothing I do helps my depression.”  Extensive research shows that specific ... have the automatic thought “It is not safe to speak my mind.” This automatic thought may lead to feelings of ... Geriatric Psychiatry Outreach Team at Vancouver General Hospital ( http://psychiatry.vch.ca/gpot.htm ) as well as ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2011
... That was the sound of the sucker punch contacting my skull. Those who know me well would likely suggest more of ... “Pinch me,” in the July/August 2010  BCMJ  outlining my reasons for distrusting government. I felt a little ... in Langley also provide emergency coverage to Chilliwack Hospital they won’t have anyone left on a MOCAP contract.  ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2011
... second-generation immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. My parents were uprooted after the social upheaval in East ... Iran regularly. So I’ve been through two upheavals in my life, in Iran I was at med school when the Shah’s regime ... it. I used to teach regular sessions at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in the ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2011
... are much less onerous. In addition I can access my EMR from anywhere (home, office, away from home at CME). ... one specific aspect this way. “In the pre-EMR days, my referral to a lung specialist might say ‘Please see Ms X ... of the greatest benefits. “Lab tests, X-ray reports, and hospital info come automatically into the patient file ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, October 2011
... is beyond the scope of this article. How do I know my patient is delirious? Delirium is diagnosed according to ... progress to acute anxiety and then paranoia. How do I know my patient doesn’t have dementia or depression or both? ... to some of the atypical antipsychotics. Vancouver General Hospital’s Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service has vast ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, October 2011
... are about managing patients in the community and avoiding hospital admissions and other interventions where ... what elements of care are required, what medications my patients have or need, their spirometry results, whether ... can even send a copy of the patient’s flowsheet with my referral. And be­cause I’m working to guidelines ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Day, MB October 2011
... Upon returning to BC he interned at Vancouver General Hospital and did his residency in ortho­paedic surgery, ... on the strong roots he had helped create. He was also, to my knowledge, the only person to reject a nomination as ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD October 2011
... Verchere is a pediatric plastic surgeon at BC Children’s Hospital, a clinical associate professor at the University of ... happiness? Reading a good book on a quiet warm day in my garden while nursing a glass of Kettle Valley pinot gris ... of favorites in different genres in different phases of my life from Madeleine L’Engle, Bryce Cour­tenay, Harper ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD November 2011
... is still so flexible and unshaped. I work at a pediatric hospital, and it’s been my distinct pleasure to meet children of all ages, sometimes ... Just by virtue of these youngsters be­ing here in my office, our personal and professional interactions may ...