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News April 2014
The  BC Medical Journal  is pleased to announce Ms Laura Budd as the winner of the J.H. MacDermot Prize for 2013 for her article, “Physician tweet thyself: A guide for integrating ... into medical practice” ( BCMJ  2013;55:38-40 ). In her article, Ms Budd discusses the risks and benefits to using ...
Letters / BY: Nicholas Rety, MD May 2014
... Doctors BC some 30 years ago, as described in an article I wrote for the May 1983 issue of the  BC Medical Journal , ( BCMJ  1983;25:232-233 ). I welcome the ... —Nicholas Rety, MB Vernon We have posted  Dr Rety’s article  online as a matter of historical interest.  —ED. ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) May 2014
... is because it’s being talked about at all levels (this article does not discuss physician-assisted death, currently ... we realize there are challenges for doctors. Early in our medical education we associate patient survival with success, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... treatment should integrate appropriate evidence-based medical and surgical treatments to address cardiac pathology. ... to palliative care. This is a revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ ... appeared on page 227, paragraph 1, line 12 in the original article ["(17.2 g twice daily)" corrected to "(17.2 mg twice ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD June 2014
... to Fees  states: Services are not benefits of MSP if a medical practitioner provides them to the following members ... the risk of being audited. The CMPA has also written an article in the April CMPA e-bulletin on this subject: “Know ... the risks: Treating family and friends.” To view this article, visit  http://bit.ly/1jvwgFr . —Keith White, MD, ...
College Library / BY: Robert Melrose June 2014
... the latest issue of a journal and abreast of the latest medical developments in your specialty. Subscribe to the ... e-mail notification when the latest issue of a requested medical journal is available. The service is available for ... to provide you with—where available—the full-text article to read.  The subject alerts service can either be ...
Letters / BY: Patricia Mirwaldt, MD, CCFP, June 2014
I am writing in response to the article “Changes to medical staff privileging in British Columbia” ( BCMJ ... College of Family Physicians Letters Re: Changes to medical staff privileging in British Columbia ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sean McGee, BSc (Hons), July/August 2014
... Medicine  ( NEJM ), Asch, Nicholson, and Vujicic analyze medical education through an economic lens.[ 1 ] They warn ... and society.”[ 8 ] It is difficult to see how the article by Asch and colleagues aligns with these—or  NEJM ... Medicine for his encouragement and for directing us to the article that helped us frame our essay. MDs To Be The heart ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Alfredo Tura, MD, CCFP, FCFP, ACBOM July/August 2014
... occupational medicine and began my career as a WorkSafeBC medical advisor, one of my esteemed colleagues said to me, ... complete each other. This holistic view is in keeping with medical literature and common sense. After all, significant ... Bayshore Hotel, as indicated in the print version of this article. WorkSafeBC Occupational medicine: The yin ...
Letters / BY: Gerard Ponsford, MBBS, September 2014
... disability claim there exists an equally fraudulent medical certificate. After all, sans this authentication such ... Surgeons of British Columbia." This is more of a watch-out article than a smarten-up one. Not so much, don't do this at ...