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News June 2012
... will emerge as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC updates their policies.  The BCMA will update members as ... becomes available. Bill 34 can be viewed on the BC Legislative Assembly website at www.leg.bc.ca/39th4th/votes/progress-of-bills.htm . News New bill may ...
News June 2012
... and hospitalizations among chro­nic disease sufferers in BC, and account for over $5.7 billion in direct health care costs every year in Canada. With funding from Genome BC, the Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF) Centre of ... test, which could be done at any clinical laboratory in BC, to determine if a person is at risk for an exacerbation ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, June 2012
... a year.  The one-time cost of a kidney transplant in BC is approximately $20000, with an additional yearly cost of ... disabled by the federal government, and classified by the BC Ministry of Education as “physically disabled, chronic ... case involving a 9-year-old boy with autism, Hewko v. BC, Madame Justice Koen­igsberg stated that “reasonable ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Hal D. Gunn, MD, June 2012
... into the excellent cancer treatment provided by the BC Cancer Agency. A not-for-profit society, InspireHealth is ... associated with significantly longer survival compared to BC cancer registry statistics. For example, 53% of ... compared to just 20% or 23% of patients in the standard BC or SEER (US) survival curves for this disease during the ...
Premise / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP June 2012
There is a growing suspicion among the citizens of BC that the current system of health care delivery is largely ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Alison D. Kaplen, DMD June 2012
... Shaw Auditorium Saturday, 20 October 2012 • Nanaimo, BC For more information on the conference, visit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC July/August 2012
... of writing there were only 685 medical practitioners in BC authorized to prescribe methadone for analgesia (6.4% of ... acute care hospitals.  A recent survey of more than 800 BC family physicians explored the barriers to physicians ... covered by Pharmacare for patients registered with the BC Palliative Care Benefits Program. Methadone has been ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM July/August 2012
... William Osler)[ 6 ] is still very much alive and well in BC and that improvements in testing, albeit challenging to ... and Stanley Wong. 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 Better syphilis infection ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS July/August 2012
... the Library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and has not been peer reviewed by the  BCMJ  Editorial ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2012
... in Washington State dress just as poorly as physicians in BC. The only place you will probably see more pairs of ...