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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2013
BC’s new health minister, the Honourable Terry Lake, has ... program, please contact Erica Timmerman at etimmerman@bcma.bc.ca . I recently attended a national meeting sponsored by ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD September 2013
In February 2013, the BC Medical Association and the Ministry of Health announced ... supporting continuous physician-patient relationships in BC. Along with the Attachment initiative, also referred to as ... of Health initiatives design­ed to strengthen BC’s primary care system.  Despite the critical importance ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... emergency department physician to be president of the BC Medical Association. After graduating from UBC and then ... also did many dozens of medical evacuations to Alberta and BC, and some to the USA and Europe. When I moved to Duncan in ... the BCMA? The BCMA is the voice of organized medicine in BC. The organization creates a great deal of BC health ...
Letters / BY: H. Douglas Cooper, MD, September 2013
... Pratten’s appeal from the 27 November 2012 Order of the BC Court of Appeal.  For those who don’t know about the ... She thought this was wrong and brought a suit against the BC Attorney General and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC.  Initially the BC Supreme Court agreed with her. This ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD September 2013
On behalf of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, I thank the editor of the  BCMJ  for the opportunity to ... role is to ensure that physicians practising in BC are aware of, and compliant with, laws and legal matters ...
Letters / BY: Keith J. White, MD September 2013
... your area are encouraged to contact us at shared_care@bcma.bc.ca .  —Keith White, MD —Chris Rauscher, MD —Mhezbin ...
News September 2013
... deliveries in the Ulaanbaatar Maternity Hospital. The  BC Medical Journal  congratulates all these exceptional ...
News September 2013
Cardiac Services BC, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority ... they are performed in the province.  HEARTis replaces the BC Cardiac Registry, a 20-year-old system that required ... departments from all five regional health authorities in BC.  HEARTis improves access to critical health-related ...
News / BY: Jennifer J. Telford, MD, MPH, FRCPC, CAGF, FACG September 2013
... through screening is not known, a study surveying BC Cancer Agency patients diagnosed with invasive colorectal ... . —Jennifer J. Telford, MD Medical Director, BC Cancer Agency Colon Screening Program News Effectively ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) September 2013
As physicians in BC (and across Canada), each day we encoun­ter challenges ... other physician groups, CMPA, UBC Faculty of Medicine, PAR-BC, and the college and association of pharmacists, all of ... valuable feedback. As well, the Association surveyed BC physicians to learn their perspectives. Adding to the ...