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News January/February 2015
Last September Doctors of BC’s Council on Health Promotion published a policy ...
News January/February 2015
... . Physicians can also e-mail GPSCregistration@gov.bc.ca if they have questions or require additional help. The ...
Obituaries / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2015
... of poor results in negotiations with the Government of BC, the then BCMA decided to hire a nonphysician expert in ... interests of the people of the province and the doctors of BC with great wisdom and humility. He served in that role for ... is a better place thanks to him, and the doctors of BC owe him a great deal. —Brad Fritz, MD Vancouver ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD January/February 2015
... do this include: •    A first-of-its-kind, made-in-BC initiative that allows specialists and facility-based ... this is a wonderful and exciting time to be a physician in BC! —Bill Cavers, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment Collaboration: Changing the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Cathy Clelland, MD January/February 2015
... resources. Barriers to interprofessional collaboration in BC In BC only some patients have access to a coordinated and ... leaves a level of uncertainty in the minds of many BC family physicians regarding their ability to attain a ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... specializations.  Every medical specialty at Doctors of BC is represented by a section. While sections vary greatly ... to 40 sections occurred following the dissolution of the BC Society of Internal Medicine. One of the oldest sections and created 62 years ago, the BC Society of Internal Medicine dissolved into nine sections ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ken Q. Little, MSc, March 2015
... and 154 per 100 000 men in Canada.[ 8 ] In the province of BC alone, direct treatment for genital warts costs an ... do not provide consent, and the vaccination rate in a BC school-based program is under 70%.[ 14 ] In keeping with ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM March 2015
... stem cell transplant recipients (HSCT, covered in the BC program), the only other individuals for whom the ... for the use of these vaccines are contained in the BC immunization manual available at  ... span. Reported rates of invasive pneumococcal disease in BC are about 8 per 100 000, but in infants and adults 60 and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2015
... I was privileged to speak at the annual meeting of the BC Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA) along with the ... patients with opportunities to be more active. Doctors of BC will help make these connections for us. And divisions of ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, CCFP March 2015
... for money and quality improvement. Perhaps Doctors of BC would consider developing a module for distribution on ...