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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... the Communicable Disease Policy Committee, released the BC Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Prevention, Treatment and ... comorbidities, including country of birth. In a group of BC dialysis patients, interferon gamma release assays have ... screening program for chronic kidney disease patients in BC. Routine screening was not performed uniformly across all ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD October 2015
... are referred to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC). 9.    Patterns of practice or billing (including ... section under the Resource Centre tab on the Doctors of BC website (login required) to complete the Post-Audit Survey ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... effects. In 2013, 4% of youth age 12 to 19 surveyed in the BC Adolescent Health Survey reported using ecstasy.[ 1 ] In a ... there are between 15 and 23 ecstasy-related deaths in BC, and emergency departments frequently treat patients with ... ecstasy overdose.[ 3 ] In October and November 2011, the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre received calls from ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... theme issue will help to inform health care providers in BC of a few common and important issues relating to child ... Columbia Medical Director, Child Protection Service Unit, BC Children's Hospital Editorials Guest editorial: Child ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD October 2015
... the residential care initiative to communities across BC. Participation in the residential care initiative is open ... local strategies to improve residential care across BC ...
Letters / BY: Evert Tuyp, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... risk of developing melanoma (US figures). Meanwhile, BC has a critical shortage of dermatologists--the melanoma ... There are 26 postings for dermatologists on Health Match BC, the provincial recruiting website ( www.healthmatchbc.org ... (according to the CMA Masterfile, January 2015). BC lost six dermatologists in the past 6 months alone. The ...
News / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2015
The members of your Doctors of BC delegation to the Canadian Medical Association General ... of opportunities for socializing, the delegation from BC was hard at work. Why care? The CMA GC is the parliament ... This year was precedent-setting in that a Doctors of BC board motion allowed us to bring Mr Nitai Gelber and Drs ...
News October 2015
... Services Committee (a joint committee of Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health). Access to UpToDate is also available to residents and medical students in BC through the Divisions subscription. Division members who ...
News October 2015
... has named a street after Dr Aruna Thakur of Burnaby, BC. Dr Thakur’s patients organized a campaign to have a ... patients’ psychiatric health. When Dr Thakur moved to BC in 2012 she chose to practise at the Central Park Medical ... in a psychiatry clinic in Saskatoon, she saw the move to BC as an opportunity to put some good ideas into practice: to ...
News / BY: Renee Bricker October 2015
... 665-2262. —Renee Bricker Insurance Advisor, Doctors of BC News Self-insurance: When is it the right choice? ...