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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD October 2011
... Director, TB Control This article is the opinion of the BC Centre for Disease Control and has not been peer reviewed by the  BCMJ  Editorial Board. BC Centre for Disease Control Those other mycobacteria ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS October 2011
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC now provides members with access to two excellent clinical ... the Library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and has not been peer reviewed by the  BCMJ  Editorial ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD October 2011
British Columbians can now call or e-mail Health Link BC’s Dietitian Services with any nutrition or food-related ... concerns. As part of the pro­vince’s Healthy Families BC program, BC dietitians are available to answer physicians’ questions ...
Editorials / BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC October 2011
... for cholinesterase inhibitors and provide an update on the BC Alzheimer’s Drug Therapy Initiative (ADTI) re­search ... had not yet been widely adopted by family physicians in BC, and it was felt that the MMSE, which was already in ... 1 ] developed and delivered workshops to physicians in 39 BC communities from 2008 to 2010.  Guided by a facilitator, ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB October 2011
... In the wake of the 1991 Barer-Stoddart re­port, BC (like many other provinces) acted to reduce enrollment in ... Medical School will not generate the numbers of doctors BC will need.  At a recent meeting of a group that included ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, October 2011
... the pro­vince and to increase job satisfaction among BC’s general practitioners. The PSP offers focused training ...
Letters / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC October 2011
We thank  Ms Souch  for her ongoing dialogue with the BC Centre for Disease Control about Lyme disease in British ... of the many Lyme-related studies that have been done in BC and was intended to provide physicians with an update and ... from over 10 years of collection at 125 different sites in BC. Dr Teng’s project investigated areas where people were ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2011
... newsletter; despite the best efforts of the current BC government to destroy it, the TI continues to critique the ...
Letters / BY: George E. Price, MD October 2011
... regarding the prevalence and risk of Lyme disease in BC.  For some years, the lower incidence of Lyme disease in Canada (especially in BC) compared with some areas of the US has been attributed by ... .[ 4 ] In 1995 I reported a case of Lyme arthritis in BC and speculated that the paucity of cases in BC was further ...
Letters / BY: Sheri Souch, October 2011
... of the bull’s eye. Based on Dr Henry’s survey of BC doctors,[ 5 ] erythema migrans rashes are not even ... recognized as reportable to the BCCDC by the majority of BC doctors who responded to the survey, so the statistics ... Epidemic or not, true cases of Lyme are being missed in BC and those “cases” are people: people who are suffering ...