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Obituaries / BY: Bill Johnston, MD, March 2014
... North America and beyond.  Al was born in Armstrong, BC, and was the fifth child in a family of six. The family ... summers for Fisheries and Oceans Canada in northern BC. Al joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in September 1942 ... in 1952. Following his graduation in 1953, Al returned to BC to do his medical internship at Vancouver General ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... (9 per million).[ 1 ] Results from qualitative reports of BC data available at the time of writing were not ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) March 2014
... geographical and population challenges than we have in BC that are able to deliver patient-focused, high-quality ... countries come to mind. So what’s the solution for BC? Following on the successful model set by the Divisions of ... of our 3-year strategic plan promises that Doctors of BC will be better engaged with our members: with the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelley Perlman, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, March 2014
... depending on the results of the reassessment.[ 4 ] The BC Driver Fitness Handbook for Medical Professionals provides ... least 70% of nights, with objective documentation.[ 5 ] In BC physicians must report to the motor vehicle licensing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2014
... uncommon. In 2013, one such late complication was seen in BC in the form of vaccine-related herpes zosteriform ... vaccine-strain VZV may be involved. In all such cases, the BC Centre for Disease Control laboratory may be consulted. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joanne Stares, MHSc, April 2014
... Interior Health Authority, Ministry of Health, and BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) deemed it prudent to ... of occurrence of IBD in Trail relative to the rest of BC, Environmental Health Services at the BCCDC calculated ... boundary of the Interior Health Authority and for all of BC. Findings Preliminary findings indicate that health ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David F. Smith, MD, April 2014
... (EMSC) has played an important role for Doctors of BC over the past 50 years. Functioning under the umbrella of ... Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles (OSMV) in BC. Its purpose was to address medical issues affecting safe ... by political or other difficulties between Doctors of BC and governments over the years. Early in this ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2014
... has changed, then you could  probably find me through the BC Medical Association. I would love to hear from you. As I ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2014
... the 2010 National Physician Survey indicated that 69.2% of BC physicians were using online journals, clinical practice ... Family Practice is an initiative of the joint Doctors of BC/Ministry of Health General Practice Services Committee ... and website articles, and a link to a video in which BC physicians speak about how UpToDate has helped them ...
Letters / BY: William Gardner, MBChB, April 2014
... to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  had four items on the topic of ...