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Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC January/February 2014
... us insight into the minds of some of our most prominent medical leaders. I have recently joined the board of Dying with Dignity and head the Medical Advisory Council. I have also been involved in a ... to die.” [Dr Terwiel died 4 January 2014; see the article on  page 36 . —ED] It is in this context that I ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, MD January/February 2014
... sites of the University of British Columbia’s Medical Undergraduate Program, people are generally focused ... receive when learning somewhere other than the traditional medical boot camps of Vancouver. All of these issues are ... coordinator) for their assistance in writing this article. I am also especially grateful for the support of the ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, January/February 2014
... recognizing his long-term contributions to medicine and medical politics. His career in medicine took him to the ... from there. During the Vietnam War, Dr Terwiel read an article in the Medical Tribune extoling the US presence in ... he disagreed on an issue, Dr Terwiel published a rebuttal article. A week after his article was published his ...
Letters / BY: James Quan, MD, March 2014
I greatly appreciated Dr Verchere’s thoughtful article on professionalism ( BCMJ  2013;55:454,461 ). It ... develop professionalism—I think of the teachers I had in medical school, the senior members of my general practice ... clinics that have arisen promise rapid response for acute medical and surgical treatment but require payment for the ...
Letters / BY: Murray McFadden, MD, March 2014
... process ( BCMJ 2013;55:390-393 ). Not mentioned in your article is the fact that Ontario has core audit values ... 2010[ 3 ] as a result of Justice Cory’s report,[ 4 ] “Medical Audit Practice in Ontario.” That high-level and ...
Letters / BY: Keith J. White, MD March 2014
Thank you to Dr McFadden for his comments on the article which appeared in the  BCMJ , Issue: Vol. 55. No. 8, ... Committee (POPC). This is the second printing of this article in the  BCMJ .  The POPC would like to clarify ... structures in BC. BC structures include: –    Having medical inspectors and audit hearing panel members who are ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... was published in the June 2012 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  ( BCMJ  2012;54:232-237 ). The article describes how type 1 diabetes, unlike other common, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelley Perlman, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, March 2014
... positions in the workplace. OSA is the most common medical disorder to cause excessive daytime sleepiness. It is ... In safety-sensitive positions, sleep apnea is a chronic medical condition—it needs to be under control before that ... For more information The information contained in this article is based on a review of literature available up to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2014
... dermatitis. Case data A 9-year-old boy presented to a medical clinic in Kelowna in the summer of 2013. Aside from a ... VZV vaccine before entering kindergarten. Otherwise, his medical history was unremarkable. Upon examination, the child ... Competing interests None declared. Acknowledgment This article is dedicated to the late Dr Peter Middleton, who made ...
Letters / BY: John Dale, MD, April 2014
... more coverage in the media and needs more from within the medical profession as well. His thoughtful letter does, ... Dr Donkin’s factual and other logical errors. First, the article written by Dr Pereira in  Current Oncology [ 1 ] is ... journal does not guarantee factual rigidity. A follow-up article[ 2 ] in the same journal debunks his claims in great ...