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Obituaries / BY: Cliff Henderson, MD, November 2012
... family medicine in The Pas, Manitoba, and Terrace, BC. Following this, he trained at Vancouver General Hospital ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Warriner, MD, November 2012
... at the West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni, BC, and was the founder of that department. She joined the ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD November 2012
... 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 ... available to those in the outside community.[ 3 ] In BC six collaborations between community organizations and ... screening. Together, they organized a visit from the BC Cancer Agency’s Screening Mammography Program mobile ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Strang MD, FRCPC December 2012
... Nova Scotia has a population of 940 000; less than 25% of BC’s 4.5 million population. In 2001 the Central Nova ... for ways to improve the health of incarcerated women in BC, lessons can be learned from Nova Scotia, where the ... Future directions for the health of incarcerated women in BC ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH December 2012
Most physicians in BC will eventually encounter patients in their medical ... scope of the problem: the health of incarcerated women in BC.” This article provides an overview of the correctional ... community-prison programs for in­car­cerated women in BC,” describes some innovative initiatives for incarcerated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH December 2012
... ] individuals were admitted to the correctional system in BC, of whom approximately 10% were female. Women in BC are incarcerated in either the federal or the provincial ... in Abbotsford houses all federally sentenced women in BC. On any one day, 57 women will be housed at FVI and 39% of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, December 2012
  Three of the worst wildfire seasons on record in BC occurred over the past decade, with tens of thousands of ... in relation to exposure to wildfire smoke. Surveillance BC medical health officers have historically relied upon ad ... with smoke from fires in Siberia, the United States, and BC ( Figure 2 ). Over the next 3 years we will improve the ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS December 2012
... 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: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2012
... were 1059 documented severe cases and 56 fatalities in BC.[ 2 ]  Pandemics aside, the seasonal in­flu­enza ...