Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP
September 2012
... during the Summit. Please contact Erica at etimmerman@bcma.bc.ca for more information. Needless to say, doctors should model the behavior we expect of our patients ...
Editorials /
BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD
October 2012
... strike at the very core of what we are trying to be: good doctors. A common response to criticism is to employ defence ... appropriate to work as an emergency physician in one of BC’s busiest emergency departments without the CCFP(EM) ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Liza Kallstrom,
October 2012
Much anticipated by family doctors across British Columbia, the Child and Youth Mental ... Unique to the CYMH module, PSP coordinators across BC are acting as local hubs, bringing together the various ... module on child and youth mental health launches across BC ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC
October 2012
... promotes the belief that physicians are never ill; doctors are typically very independent, competitive, and high ... that affect every physician on a daily basis. Not all doctors will have to deal with substance abuse or depression, ... patients, and the health care system as a whole. BC’s Walk With Your Doc initiative, attended by over 100 ...
President's Comment /
BY: Shelley Ross, MD
November 2012
... have had more specialists show up, and others more family doctors, but there has always been a healthy mix of both. I ... specialty, and I truly want to understand what that means. Doctors—never shy about expressing their views—have ... heard so far is that the number of physicians working in BC is not meeting the needs of physicians or patients. While ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA,
December 2012
Correctional institutions in BC offer a variety of health and education programs for ... access to health care professionals, including nurses, doctors, dentists, psychologists, and psychiatrists[ 1 , 2 ] ... available to those in the outside community.[ 3 ] In BC six collaborations between community organizations and ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em)
December 2012
... care for patients. Typically it refers to situations where doctors might hurt patients with inappropriate treatments, ... were 1059 documented severe cases and 56 fatalities in BC.[ 2 ] Pandemics aside, the seasonal influenza ...