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News / BY: Sinden Luciuk, November 2011
... advisor at 1 800 665-2262, or e-mail  jkwan@bcma.bc.ca  or  iwoojohn@bcma.bc.ca . More information is also available on the BCMA ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, November 2011
After 14 years at the helm of the BC Medical Association, steering it on a steady course to ... an extremely cordial and collegial relationship with the BC government, and the Ministry of Health in particular. He ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2011
... cancer types (breast and cervix). However, a proposed BC screening program for colorectal cancer (Colon Check) is ... figures are collected.[ 2 ]  For the province of BC, the overall age-standardized mortality rate for all ... data are available,1 and the same pattern holds within BC.  Oral cancers are known to be strongly related to both ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dan Bilsker, PhD, December 2011
... suicide accounts for about 10% of all PYLL for men; in BC, it accounts for about 7%.[ 11 ]  We also need to look at ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC December 2011
Now available in BC: E-cards patients can use to notify sex partners to get ... with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every year in BC. It is important that their sex partners be tested and ... as well, in order to reduce the spread of infection. In BC, there are many ways patients with an STI can encourage ...
Editorials / BY: S. Larry Goldenberg, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FCAHS December 2011
... the need for a compehensive men’s health program in BC, and the treatment of erectile dysfunction and ... issue are concerns of the Men’s Health Initiative of BC (MHIBC), a nonprofit umbrella organization that serves as ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brendan Abbott, December 2011
... of allied health practitioners covering all areas of BC. The directory was designed to re­duce the time and ... 300 stakeholders and users in local communities across BC were provided the opportunity to learn about CHARD, ... new users in the last year, CHARD has found a place in the BC health care system. Physicians and medical office ...
Letters / BY: Benjamin Martens, MD, December 2011
... for a community to practise in. I am originally from BC and would love to return; however, I have been closely ... pro­gress of negotiations and interactions between the BC government and the BC Medical Association.  The objectives that the BC ...
Letters / BY: Jeremy Smith, December 2011
... captured enough data for analysis.  PITO and a number of BC physicians are participating in a national study of the ... As for the EMRs themselves, those that are widely used in BC existed prior to government-funding programs. In fact, five of the eight EMRs that represent 92% of the BC market were founded and/or developed by physicians;  the ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD December 2011
... that the EMR software packages currently available in BC improve measurable patient outcomes? —Robert Shepherd, ...