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News June 2014
... the Practice Support Program (a partnership of Doctors of BC and the government of BC) family doctors are receiving training to better treat ...
News June 2014
... awareness about youth mental health issues, Doctors of BC is seeking submissions of original artwork from BC high school and postsecondary students that expresses what ... from the Council on Health Promotion and the Doctors of BC staff, with one winner selected from the high school ...
News June 2014
Funding from the provincial government and Doctors of BC will support Selkirk College to launch a new 3-year ... partnership between the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. The committee develops programs that strengthen rural ...
Obituaries / BY: Alison Pontifex, MD, June 2014
... residents. He was one of the original partners in BC Biomedical Laboratories and served as a chair of the ... of the Westminster Medical Society, president of the BC Association of Laboratory Physicians, and scientific chair ...
Obituaries / BY: Paul Zickler, MD, June 2014
... celebrated at a heartwarming ceremony at Crescent Beach in BC. Dr Dyck spent his career as an emergency physician at the ... there until moving with his Mennonite family to Yarrow, BC. After spending some time in Vancouver the family moved to ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD June 2014
On 31 May I began my term as president of Doctors of BC, a year-long journey to represent you, my colleagues, ... step will see the greatest new investment by Doctors of BC. I will need your help. In my coming President’s Tour I ... with you. —William Cavers, MD President, Doctors of BC President's Comment Physicians as leaders at a time of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP June 2014
... of tasks that may not require the use of pneumatic tools. BC workers seem to defer making claims. Loggers, on average, ... WorkSafeBC The hand-arm vibration syndrome experience in BC ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sophie Y. Wang, BSc, July/August 2014
... resistance in over 50% of isolates. Resistance patterns in BC reflect the international trends; however, our results are mixed.[ 2 ] According to BC Biomedical Laboratories (now part of LifeLabs Medical ... of  S. pneumoniae  nonsusceptible to penicillin in BC has stabilized since 2010 and was reported to be at 17.2% ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD July/August 2014
... from the Ministry of Health website at  www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/infoprac/ffsclaim.html . If an Assignment of ... in the Preamble (C. 7, C. 8, and C. 9) to the  Doctors of BC Guide to Fees , which summarizes the requirements set out ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2014
... same time outlaw other options. Justice J. Spencer of the BC Supreme Court has stated: “… if it comes to a choice ...