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Clinical Articles / BY: Kathleen Eddy, BSc, January/February 2013
Background According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), between 2004 and 2007 the number ... appropriateness of CT and MRI examinations ordered in all health regions in BC. Methods   The Ministry of Health in BC contracted with an independent company ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP January/February 2013
... of the International Society of Physical Activity and Health with conference attendees from around the world. I ... the world. Even so, the determined researchers and public health interventionists shared many wonderful stories of ... physically active is the next best thing we can do for our health besides not smoking?” We spend so much time getting ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD January/February 2013
... mandatory influenza vaccination instituted by provincial health authorities. According to the CMPA: “Professionalism ... concept, and even with the multitude of changes in health care, it is still a critical guiding principle for all ... of care, the ability to contribute within a team of health care professionals including nurses, pharmacists, and ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2013
... I take issue with is the idea that wheat consumption is a health care crisis on the level of smoking or obesity.  A ... we should eat like cavemen, we really don’t have any health statistics on that population. I’m also pretty sure ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD January/February 2013
... (GPSC), a joint committee of the BCMA and the Ministry of Health, has sought to identify common ground, establish ... mutual goals, and foster creative thought and solutions to health system challenges. Through initiatives such as the ... the Shared Care Committee—also joint BCMA/Ministry of Health committees—at a governance level and through its ...
Letters / BY: Ebrahim Rafi-Zadeh, MD, January/February 2013
... 2012. Copies can be ordered or viewed on the web at www.health.gov.bc.ca . The numbers are fascinating and, at times, ... statements (the blue book) are available online at www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/financial_statement.html . —ED Letters ...
Letters / BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC January/February 2013
... and Dufour and their support in recognizing that physician health is an area of medicine that is far too often ... that we face in promoting this aspect of physician health.  I would like to echo the sentiments of Drs Moore ...
Letters / BY: Simon Moore, MD, CCFP January/February 2013
... (CAIR) supports efforts like those of Ms Tyzuk [Physician health: A review of lifestyle behaviors and preventive health care among physicians,  BCMJ  2012;54:419-423 ] to ... that “…  cutbacks to resident hours means that health care facilities will have to find ways to cover the ...
Letters / BY: Jim Busser, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, January/February 2013
... five officers, and five delegates, one for each of five health authority aligned districts, each with four vice ... to appreciate, and bridge, the divides between our health authorities’ clinical administrators, GPs, and ...
MDs To Be / BY: Laura Budd, BMSc, January/February 2013
... or worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health. Social media is the broad spectrum of online ... media and its overarching infrastructure of Web 2.0 into health care is increasing and generating discussions in the ... Web 2.0 as an adjuvant to traditional methods of accessing health care.  Physicians use social media too. According to ...