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College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS March 2011
... College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC Library This article is the opinion of the College Library ...
Letters / BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD March 2011
... screening,  BCMJ 2010;52:499-500 ]. She also states that BC is “currently developing a study to test the ... cancer.” Others can defend the pilot already underway in BC to assess the use of an immunochemical fecal occult blood ...
News&Notes / BY: J. Pawlovich, MD March 2011
... Fraser Lake is located near the geo­graphic centre of BC. It is a dot along Highway 16 that meanders from Prince ... km away at the newly named University Hospital of Northern BC in Prince George.  In 2002 Fraser Lake developed a rural ... put forth to the multiple players in diagnostic imaging in BC. This was a co­operative venture between the au­thor and ...
Obituaries / BY: Steve Edworthy, MD, March 2011
... he and Margaret moved west. He became a member of the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1947 and practised in BC until 1986. He established a pediatric practice in ... games in the neighborhood, hunting trips into the wilds of BC, canoe trips on western rivers, and golfing—were the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Teng, PhD, April 2011
... a human incidence rate of less than 0.1/100000 in all of BC.[ 3 ] However, there is in­creasing public concern and ... their main disease host for the presence of pathogens. In BC, tick-borne patho­gens are maintained in the environment ... of the disease as previously found in human cases in BC.[ 8 ] The absence of  B. burgdorferi s.s.  in our ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Kur, MD, FRCPC, ABIM April 2011
... services and the practice patterns of rheumatologists in BC.  National attempts at characterizing physician practices ... ). Recognizing that a more comprehensive analysis of the BC rheuma­tologist population was needed to guide future ... of clinical rheumatological outpatient care available in BC today is equivalent to 32 rheum­atolgists working 5 days ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Natalie Prystajecky, PhD, SCCM April 2011
... Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory and BC Provincial Infection Control Network. BC Centre for Disease Control Norovirus infections in health ...
Council on Health Promotion April 2011
I’m hoping the news headline on 10 May 2011 will read “BC doctors step out for Walk with your Doc initiative!”  ... last year with a small, dedicated group of doctors in BC who invited their inactive patients to go for a walk with ... with the goal of having an event in every community in BC—every year. Just as the early 1990s saw BC doctors adopt ...
Letters / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD April 2011
... B1 should be relatively uniform across Canada. However, BC authorizations to possess marijuana are nearly one-third ... are any less educated on “medical marijuana” than BC physicians. More likely this points to the lack of robust ... of the highly prevalent use of recreational marijuana in BC.  Whether Health Canada or the courts created “medical ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS April 2011
... 638-8745, toll free at 1 800 665-2262, or at  jkwan@bcma.bc.ca .  —Sandie Braid, CEBS Assistant Director, Insurance ...