WorkSafeBC /
BY: Peter Rothfels, MD
April 2011
... starting this spring, WorkSafeBC will introduce a new practice for the reimbursement of prescription ... beyond 8 weeks postinjury/surgery. Evidence-based practice The new WorkSafeBC practice regarding sedative-hypnotics is consistent with ...
Clinical Articles
May 2011
In the average family practice many patients have disease that is either genetic or ... there are so many genetic diseases that any large enough practice will have several patients so afflicted. ... will have a patient with a mitochondrial disease in your practice. As well as remembering that presentations of ...
College Library /
BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS
May 2011
... BMJ Point-of-Care, Procedures Consult, and BC Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols, have also developed unique ... the College Library. Condensed versions of BC Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols are available for free to ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brian Evoy, PhD,
May 2011
... BCMJ Editorial Board. The number of divisions of family practice in BC continues to grow, with four now representing ... distance between participating communities, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) and the Joint Standing ... attention on this issue, thanks to the Divisions of Family Practice model and their CSC committee. This experience is ...
Letters /
BY: John de Couto, MD,
May 2011
... understand the spectrum of care from primary care/family practice through to the level of specialty. I cannot help ...
Letters /
BY: Andrew Seal, MS, FRCSC,
May 2011
... to pass without censure. Dr Porzecanski retired from practice in 1992. I can only assume therefore that she has ... not fail us. I retired this year after over 40 years of practice. The greatest pleasures of my professional life have ...
Letters /
BY: Peter Uhlmann, MD,
May 2011
... hospital in California. When I made my final choice to practice psychiatry, I had the internship and 2 years of general practice medicine to provide me with a proper “medical” ...
Letters /
BY: Dorothy M. Goresky, MD
May 2011
... would not have been so without his experience in general practice. Another value in someone having the choice to enter a specialty after experiencing general practice is that they now have a much clearer idea of the ...
Letters /
BY: Stephen D. Anderson, MD, FRCPC
May 2011
... acutely following severe brain injury. In clinical practice other medications such as clonidine and atypical ...
President's Comment /
BY: Ian Gillespie, MD
May 2011
... was served with a class action lawsuit alleging that this practice is unfair. The representative plaintiff in this ...