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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2015
... parents have developed a number of resources,[ 1-3 ] and these resources have been summarized in Immunize ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD September 2015
... Inspection Committee, the following actions take place: 1.    The Audit and Inspection Committee reviews all ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2015
... Smoking rates continue to fall and are now down to 18.1% of Canadians age 12 and older (males 21.4%, females 14.8%) but still totaling about 5.4 million people.[ 1 ] BC (14.3%) and Ontario (17.4%) are the only two provinces ... The self-reported rate of obesity in men increased from 20.1% in 2013 to 21.8% in 2014, and in women from 17.4% in 2013 ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC September 2015
... and the steps required to make a proper report.[ 1,2 ] As health care providers we bear witness to the ... Editorials Guest editorial: Child maltreatment, Part 1: Recognizing child maltreatment and communicating concerns ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
...  Assistant Editor Joanne Jablkowski spoke with Dr Webb 1 month into his presidency about his background, life ... with my grandfather making electronic devices. I built a 1-amp amplifier followed by a photo-electric cell switch, ... Valley Hospital after being in Canada for just over 1 year. That gave me the enormous opportunity to modernize ...
Letters / BY: Bret Batchelor, MD, September 2015
I was absolutely shocked when I received MSP’s 1 May 2015 updated preamble C.18 regarding payment for ...
News September 2015
... improved clarity about requirements to bill. Effective 1 August, these changes seek to bring clarity, alignment, and ... records for their visits are effective retroactive to 1 January 2015. Please hold submission of claims until after ...
News / BY: Andrew Guy, September 2015
... access to regular emergency services and medical care,[ 1 ] and illness, injuries, and fatalities do occur. In 2014 ...
Obituaries / BY: Robert N. Baker, MD, September 2015
... wins, the most recent of which was approximately $1.5 million in 1995. As the face of medicine understandably ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD September 2015
... care program in British Columbia, was recognized on 1 September 2015. But long before any government was prepared ... for an adequate system of insurance against sickness.”[ 1 ] Subsequent governments did not act on the commission’s ... British Columbia entered the federal medicare program on 1 July 1968. Saskatchewan was the only other province to join ...