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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2015
... compromised by age, cognitive impairment, medical illness, health literacy, and language barriers. Incapacity rates of ... The new regulations should also allow physicians and other health care providers to exempt themselves from participating ... MD, CCFP, FCFP —Maria Chung MDCM, FRCPC Council on Health Promotion Respecting a new right: What are ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: John Hamilton, MD, July/August 2015
... collaboration between physicians, government, and their health care partners is the driving force behind developing ... in patient care, more effective use of physician and other health care resources, and measurable savings that could be reallocated to optimize health care in the province.[ 3 ] Evaluation plays an ...
Letters / BY: John Stewart, MBBS, July/August 2015
... ultimately result in more efficient use of the Canadian health care system,” while all of us general neurologists ... required is extremely limited owing to underfunding in our health care system. Fortunately, other serious neurological ...
News / BY: Jessica A. Otte, MD, CCFP, July/August 2015
... The Patient Paradox: Why sexed-up medicine is bad for your health , by Dr Margaret McCartney, a GP from Glasgow and ... poverty, and consideration of other social determinants of health are not undertaken more readily. There are many models ... for, and the well escape futile tests and treatment.” As health care providers we must hold ourselves to a higher ...
News July/August 2015
... practised family medicine for 22 years and was an active health care advocate for much of his career. In addition to ... CMA Provincial CEOs Forum (2002 to 2005), chair of the CMA Health Information Technology Committee (2003 to 2011), and co-chair of the Ministry of Health Physicians Services Committee. He also served as chair ...
News July/August 2015
... medical attention. As part of the campaign, BC Emergency Health Services, which operates ambulances and emergency ...
News July/August 2015
... between the two groups. The authors felt that parents, health care providers, and educators should be aware of ...
News July/August 2015
... help support UBC’s Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health, created in 2014 to train more Aboriginal health providers, to optimize indigenous curriculum in the health sciences, and to foster research into Aboriginal ...
News July/August 2015
... teaching, research, clinical practice, administration, or health advocacy. News Vancouver radiologist recognized for ...
News July/August 2015
... to wages or salaries. They may include coverage for health and dental benefits, life insurance, and disability ... to healthier employees. If your employees have solid health insurance plans in place there is a higher likelihood ... outweigh those costs. Doctors of BC offers a comprehensive health and dental benefits plan for members and their office ...