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Clinical Articles / BY: Leslie A. Sadownik, MD, MEd, FRCSC, January/February 2012
... with vulvodynia (90%) will seek help from their family doctors.[ 3 ] Women will also seek help from gynecologists, ... they attributed primarily to the failure of both family doctors and specialists to diagnose the condition. Despite ... it is our expectation that a large number of women in BC experiencing vulvovaginal pain are going without ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP January/February 2012
... Move for Health Day (10 May 2012), challenging all BC school children to Be Active Every Day.  The goal is to ... station in 2010) to help promote Be Active Every Day. Doctors can help We are asking BC doctors to contact schools in their area and invite students ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... degrees from Simon Fraser University. Mr Seckel became BC’s deputy attorney general in 2003, overseeing the ... non-physician as a leader of the BCMA? There are a lot of doctors on the Board. In fact, last I checked, they’re all doctors. So it’s good, I think, to have another perspective ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, January/February 2012
... we released a policy paper, “Enhancing Surgical Care in BC: Improving Perioperative Quality, Efficiency, and ... In July, we released a second policy paper, entitled “Doctors Today and Tomorrow: Planning British Co­lumbia’s ... Canada to treat addiction as a chronic disease.  Family doctors now have access to new guidelines covering screening, ...
News March 2012
... we felt the need to recognize that approximately 30% of BC’s practising physicians are not, in fact, guys. ... practice of medicine for the better? If you know any Good Doctors, tell us about them! Submissions should be less than 2000 words, and can be submitted to  journal@bcma.bc.ca . News Good Guys column becomes The Good Doctor ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2012
... moderate depression and anxiety. Most family physicians in BC have limited training in the field of mental health care, ... and treating patients with mental health problems. Doctors are compensated for mental health planning and ...
Letters / BY: Marc Kazimirski, JD, June 2012
... are ap­proximately 1500 new criminal trials per year in BC” and this “pales in comparison to the roughly 65000 ... are supported by medical opinions from treating family doctors and specialists. •    Our court system penalizes ... a family of physicians (my parents and brother are family doctors from Nova Scotia); however, it is my belief that no ...
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 ... pain or palliative care specialists. The paucity of family doctors able to take over care of metha­done prescribing for ... acute care hospitals.  A recent survey of more than 800 BC family physicians explored the barriers to physicians ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2012
... in appreciation of the work they have done on behalf of BC physicians over the years.  There were a few questions ... all play by the rules. Agreements are in place to protect doctors—to ensure everyone is treated fairly and equitably.  The BCMA is committed to representing all doctors in the province in a fair, balanced, and respectful ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD July/August 2012
I write this a few short days after the BC Medical Association’s Annual General Meeting held in ... is something I think is important to share with all the doctors of BC, because you are the subject of my goals. By ... our issues. The BCMA is committed to representing all doctors in a fair, balanced, and respectful way. And for all ...