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Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD April 2014
For physicians of my generation, many additional chapters in our medical ... next generation of physicians.  Working in a community hospital does not offer many opportunities to teach students. ... I thought there was a high probability of it being within my limited teaching experience, and I signed up. I had eight ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB May 2014
... wall for a few years now—as I mentioned 2 years ago in my editorial on retirement ( BCMJ  2012;54:118-119 ). Since ... the passage of time. On the contrary; I am very happy with my situation in life and feel truly blessed to be where I am. ... their social life seems to consist of visiting friends in hospital or care facilities and going to funerals and ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD June 2014
... in Williams Lake, British Columbia, I found some of my patients were using Hoffman’s drops, consisting of one ... in Winnipeg. As a GP/anesthetist in the Cariboo Memorial Hospital, I used open drop diethyl ether to put people to ... the triumphal march into nothingness reverberated through my brain, and filled me with a sense of infinite ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2014
There are many individuals who have shaped my medical knowledge and practice over the years, but Dr John ... 1966 he established the Diabetes Day Centre at Lions Gate Hospital, the first of its kind in North America. It started as a project to keep diabetic patients out of hospital and teach them how to live normal, useful lives in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2014
... —William Osler Multimorbidity is the new normal in hospital. It seems almost rare to meet a patient with just ... a frail lady in her late 80s. This lady had visited our hospital multiple times in past months. The cascade of ... worst morbidity was a lack of family or friends. While all my colleagues were working hard to achieve the best possible ...
Premise / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2014
... to pneumonia after a few days, and she was admitted to hospital 6 days after the onset of the original illness. Over ... possible. Shortly after discharge she called us at home (my wife and I live nearby and acted as her principal support) ... As a result of competent and prompt medical care my mother-in-law recovered from pneumonia and had to die in a ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... of your career? While I was in medical school all of my friends went traveling and came back with slideshows of ... that New Zealand and BC cross-accredited, that part of my travel expenses to get down there would be subsidized ... down under? I was able to do a lot of medical work in the hospital--things I would not be allowed to do here--I was ...
Obituaries / BY: Gerard Ponsford, MBBS, September 2014
... the past 43 years. I first met John in the summer of 1978. My wife, Mary, was invited to a ladies’ lunch put on to ... years. John was also a missionary, once removed, in Surrey Hospital when he became the second internist on staff, ... skied, shared Christmases, and even sailed together. My children came to regard John as an uncle. It was a very ...
Obituaries / BY: Jane Cowan, PhD, September 2014
... Island before being transferred to Shaughnessy Veterans’ Hospital at the end of the Second World War.  With ... American Association of Plastic Surgeons. I met Bob during my first year of surgical training at Shaughnessy Hospital in ... at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr Cowan encouraged me in my desire to train in plastic surgery and recommended that I ...
Obituaries / BY: Irwin Stewart, MD, October 2014
Dr Guy Barnes was one of my interviewers when I applied for a position on the intern staff at Royal Columbian Hospital in 1956. Several of us UBC graduates were accepted ... and they continued to practise for many years.  During my internship, Dr Barnes and colleagues assumed that at least ...