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News November 2014
... Award this fall. Two of the award recipients are BC physicians with strong connections to their local ...
News / BY: Jim Christenson, MD November 2014
... from a recent (13 May 2014 [revised 30 June 2014]) BC Coroners Service Preventable Death Bulletin:* Follow the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) protocol for the ... on the Section of Emergency Medicine website ( www.sem-bc.com ), the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine website ( ...
News November 2014
... the medical profession through participation in Doctors of BC. •    Provided leadership to the broader medical ... political activities in support of health care. Doctors of BC members may nominate a member in good standing for the ... membership to the Canadian Medical Association goes to BC doctors who, at the age of 65, have been active members of ...
News November 2014
... medicine practitioners, was recently inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame. Dr Taunton’s work encompasses over ... Dr Taunton is also an active member of the Doctors of BC Athletics and Recreation Committee, a subcommittee of the ... on a well-deserved honor. News Taunton inducted into BC Sports Hall of Fame ...
Obituaries / BY: Dirk Laudan, November 2014
... doctor in 1957, after which he interned in Vancouver, BC. Dr Laudan joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as ...
Obituaries / BY: Jean Jamieson, MD, November 2014
... and internal medicine, and worked part-time at the BC Cancer Institute (now the BC Cancer Agency). Dr Beck was one of the first in BC to work as a medical oncologist, long before medical ...
Obituaries / BY: Wendy Sutton, November 2014
... the doctors and staff at Vancouver General Hospital, the BC Cancer Agency, and in particular the Palliative Care Unit, ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD November 2014
... care. I am proud to say that almost 95% of doctors in BC have adopted an electronic medical record system (EMR). It puts BC on the world stage as a leader in EMR adoption—and we ... our patients in the future. —Bill Cavers, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment Physician leadership during ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Nancy McLachlan, November 2014
... principles and medical best practices follow Doctors of BC’s  Evidence-Based Recommendations for Medical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle D. Sherwood, MD, December 2014
... healthy, fully immunized 9-year-old boy presented to BC Children’s Hospital with sudden-onset left arm weakness ... vaccine according to the schedule recommended in BC and had not traveled outside of North America, making ... seen in some cases. The regional health authority and the BC Centre for Disease Control should be contacted early for ...