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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD November 2014
... physician obstetrical billers decreased by about 4%.[ 1 ] As prenatal and obstetrical care provided by family ... Doctors of BC and the BC government, has committed nearly $1 million to increasing the number of family physicians who include obstetrics in their scope of practice. On 1 October, the GPSC reinstated its obstetrical program, ...
Letters / BY: Rajesh Nair, MD November 2014
... benefits such as improved self-esteem and reduced stress.[ 1 ] For the mentor, positive mentorship experiences offer the ... of helping and positively affecting somebody’s career.[ 1 ] While mentorship is a facilitator for career success and ...
News / BY: Jim Christenson, MD November 2014
... and overdose presents at the ED (24 hours: 604 682-5050 or 1 800 567-8911). *The full bulletin, including the DPIC ...
News / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD November 2014
By Robert Hirzer, MD. Servus Books, 2013. ISBN 0-992-1-01603. Paperback, 496 pages. $19.99. My colleague, Bob ...
News November 2014
... table event: mark your calendars for 29 April 2015 to 1 May 2015 at the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown. News ...
News&Notes / BY: Benjamin Brzezynski, MA, November 2014
... Bernie Mayer calls this “the negotiator’s dilemma.”[ 1 ] When preparing for positional negotiations, it is ... negotiation gurus, recommend the following principles: 1.    Separate the people from the problem. 2.    Focus ...
Obituaries / BY: Dirk Laudan, November 2014
... He was 81. Dr Laudan was born in Milden, Saskatchewan, on 1 November 1931, the son of Dr Harry Laudan and Ethel Laudan ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Nancy McLachlan, November 2014
... for opioid and sedative-hypnotic medications. Effective 1 January 2015, WorkSafeBC will cover the cost of opioid ... sedative-hypnotic medication—prescription coverage for 1 to 2 days. •    Treatment of spasticity associated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle D. Sherwood, MD, December 2014
... cause of severe respiratory illness across North America.[ 1 ] Members of the Picornaviridae family, enteroviruses (EVs) ... for travel to the south Atlantic region of the US 1 month earlier. Family members had similar cold-like ... vertebra (T1), with left-sided predominance ( Figure 1 ). There was T2/FLAIR hyperintensity in the C2 to T1 region ...
Clinical Articles / BY: E.M.M. Wong, MD December 2014
... hormone (PTH) level at 119 pmol/L (reference range 1.2-8.4 pmol/L), elevated ionized calcium at 1.88 mmol/L (reference range 1.10-1.30 mmol/L), low phosphorus at 0.67 mmol/L (reference ...