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News October 2011
... John’s, Newfoundland.  The MacDermot Prize recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in medical ... 1924, remaining at the helm until 1959, when it became the BC Medical Journal. He was editor of the  BCMJ  until he ... of both the Vancouver Medical Association and the BC Medical Association. The complete Terms of Reference for ...
News October 2011
... the challenges within the primary care system in BC was highlighted by The Commonwealth Fund, a private US ...
News October 2011
The BC Palliative Care Benefits Program allows patients to ... under Pharmacare plans including Fair Pharmacare. • The BC Palliative Care Benefits Program supports BC residents of any age who have reached the end stage of a ...
News / BY: Sharon Shore October 2011
... The snake/map icon (or Asclepius interwoven with the BC flag) has been simplified once again to make for clearer ...
News / BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC October 2011
BC physicians should be aware of the risk of waterborne ... adequately treated. Patients can be referred to HealthLink BC File #56, “Drinking Water and Those with Weakened Immune ... Health Officer News Risk of waterborne infection in BC ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Day, MB October 2011
... medicine from McGill University in 1950. Upon returning to BC he interned at Vancouver General Hospital and did his ... led to long-lasting productive relations with not only the BC Cancer Agency, but also with biomedical engineers and the ...
Premise / BY: Stuart Kreisman, MD October 2011
... problem is quite surprising, and it is detailed by a 2008 BC Stats survey commissioned by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and Yukon on their related smokefreehousingbc.ca website[ ... not alone, and instead suffering the problem in silence.  BC Stats calculates that up to 100 000 BC renters may move ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, October 2011
... few years have seen the effect in their portfolios.  In BC we have had a change in political leadership with one ... retiring and his replacement developing a new vision for BC. As of this writing, British Columbians remain unsure of ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD October 2011
Dr Verchere is a pediatric plastic surgeon at BC Children’s Hospital, a clinical associate professor at ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert D.H. MacMillan, MD, FRCSC, November 2011
In general, men in BC have poorer health outcomes than women. Traditionally, ... and associated metabolic syndrome are not routine in BC.  • Men age 65 to 84 consume the lion’s share of the ... that might improve on the episodic health care model in BC is the longitudinal and continuous care model that has ...