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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2013
... I was walking toward the physicians’ entrance at my local hospital. I could have been a visitor but I did have a stethoscope around my neck. The individual making this request was leaning ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD March 2013
... most waking hours of the day. I know that physicians of my generation aren’t as adept at balancing the work-life ratio as our younger colleagues. In my day, we did the early rounds in hospital, worked in the office later than we would have ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD April 2013
One of my very good friends, who is brilliant, committed, and ... the honor several years ago of being made head of his hospital clinical group. It appears likely that when he ... mandated structure of reporting and decision making.  In my opinion, the modern anatomy of our hos­pital ...
Letters / BY: Peter Blair, MD, April 2013
... remuneration is out of touch with the realities of modern hospital-based practice. There is wide­spread frustration ... changing pattern of investment will particularly affect my surgical and anesthesia colleagues. Furthermore, ...
Letters / BY: Robert G. Holmes, MD April 2013
... are not taught at medical school, and I could be at the hospital or my office in less than five minutes. A doctor behind a ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG May 2013
I learned to be a doctor in hospitals. For my generation, there was none of today’s going out into the ... us what to do. So when I became a doctor, like many of my colleagues I stayed in the hospital. And stayed.  That was it until the end of last ...
News May 2013
... Chronic Disease Program (CCDP) located at BC Wo­men’s Hospital and Health Centre is now accepting patient ... assists people with fi­bro­myalgia, myalgic encephalo­my­elitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and tick-borne ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) June 2013
... have an opportunity to make a lasting impact. Throughout my life I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts ... Volunteering has been ingrain­ed in me since I was small. My parents taught me and my siblings many lessons: right from ... my time as president of the medical staff and multiple hospital committees, as well as at the BCMA.  But a ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB September 2013
... training drills for those codes. I was initiated into the hospital emergency code system and emergency drills soon ... I was responding to. They all had a good chuckle at my expense (except the patient).  Recently, a new code has ... this stood for “over capacity protocol.” This piqued my curiosity, so I had to ask what this was about. ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... in the emergency department of the Cowichan District Hospital.   Dr William Cunningham is the first emergency ... physician attaché. Can you tell us a bit about him? My dad was one of those doctors whose story makes you say, ... and varied career.” An MD ticket can be exactly that. My dad was born and grew up in Portrush, Northern Ireland, ...