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Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2011
... Information (CIHI) document[ 1 ] misguidedly blam­ed doctors’ fees as a major contributor to the rising costs of ... editorial[ 2 ] I wrote on some financial issues facing doctors. Read both articles and you will, I hope, recognize ... or injury. A friend was recently hospitalized at a major BC hospital, suffering from a serious acute illness. Sadly, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, January/February 2011
... Agreement between the Ministry of Health Services and the BC Medical Association.  While the GPSC and the SSC are ... Pro­vidence Health Care in Vancouver. With RACE, family doctors gain ac­cess to specialists by phoning a single ... relationship that existed between specialists and family doctors, where there was time for hallway conversations and ...
News January/February 2011
... or end-of-life facilities. The team includes two BC physicians, Dr Aleco Alexiadis of Vancouver and Dr Ilona ... . News Canadian doctors in the developing world ...
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!”  May ... event began last year with a small, dedicated group of doctors in BC who invited their inactive patients to go for a ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, May 2011
... Board. The number of divisions of family practice in BC continues to grow, with four now representing communities ... we should work hard to make sure it’s available to all doctors across the province. One of the most attractive ... There’s widespread agreement on this point among doctors already involved in rural divisions.  Dr James ...
News May 2011
Dr Mary Conley of Victoria, BC, has won the 2011 Reproductive Health Award from the ... picketers, and the shooting of a number of Canadian doctors—including Dr Romalis in Vancouver—Dr Conley ... passion. She lives with her artist husband in Victoria, BC. News Conley wins reproductive health award ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2011
... of an infected tick.[ 1 ] The principal tick vector in BC is the Pacific black-legged tick,  Ixodes pacificus ,[ 2 ... is found throughout the highly populated areas of southern BC. This situation is in contrast to eastern Canada and the ... 0.5 per 100 000. A recent survey of clinicians confirms doctors have good knowledge of Lyme disease, are comfortable ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB June 2011
... with government. The government’s attitude drove family doctors to emigrate by the hundreds. In March 1966 he left ... Practice Committee. Eight years later he moved to Surrey, BC, to join Dr Terry Fidgeon and his partners in practice; ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2011
... BCMA EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH PROMOTION  Non-Profit Award BC Cancer Agency—Pap Awareness and Lace Campaign Corporate ... served as a member of the medical advisory committees at BC Children’s Hospital and Mount Saint Joseph Hospital. ... and to Sri Lanka after the tsunami. They volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, with the Centre for International ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darcy Cox, PsyD, RPsych, ABPP, September 2011
... the group may be compromised. Training opportunities for BC health care professionals  There are a number of training opportunities for BC health care professionals with an interest in learning how ... coaching to patients re­ferred by their family doctors ( www.cmha.bc.ca/services/bounceback ). Patients do ...