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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2012
... RO (personally, I like to call them the glow doctors)? Are health authorities really so funny as to justify HA? Isn’t ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Cathy Clelland, MD March 2012
Recent changes to the Health Care (Consent) and Care Fa­ci­lity (Admission) Act ... and physicians of the benefit of planning for future health care wants and needs. Advance care planning is the ... or her beliefs, values, wishes, or instructions for future health care with trusted family and health care providers. ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... In contrast, similar preparations are found in health food stores in Can­ada with “endorsement” from Health Canada, and with drug identification numbers. ... containing aconite resulting in cardiac complication.[ 1 ] Health Canada should consider raising its regulation ...
Letters / BY: Devon Christie, MD, March 2012
... to the citizens of BC, and a step forward in evolving our health care system toward innovative models of health care delivery.  —Devon Christie, MD  Vancouver ...
Letters / BY: Tim McDowell, MD, March 2012
... Dr Oppel, for taking a stand against the waste of scarce health care dollars by the Ministry of Health on “integrative medicine” as promoted by ... expenditures, only weeks after the news about crumbling health facilities in Haida Gwai. Of more concern to me were ...
News March 2012
... to the BC government’s Select Standing Committee on Health titled “Charting the course: Designing British Columbia’s health care system for the next 25 years.” The report ...
News March 2012
... legislative and other political activities in support of health care. The award consists of a $2000 do­nation to a BC ...
News March 2012
... to earn accolades, recently winning bronze in the Health Care Leadership category of the Institute of Public ... approaches to overcoming challenges in fields such as health care, education, and governance, particularly those ... Care Committee (a joint committee of the BC Ministry of Health and the BC Medical Association) and Providence Health ...
Premise / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, March 2012
As a health care professional of African descent practising in ... article has been peer reviewed. Premise Cardiovascular health in African Canadians ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, March 2012
... on many of our committees that deal with policy, health promotion, negotiations, and governance is only ...