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Letters / BY: Bret Batchelor, MD, September 2015
... in rural areas and increasing demands from patients on the health care system, who in their right mind is going to want ... compensation on top of this? I cannot support a health care system that makes a physician fully responsible ...
News September 2015
... 69 who have volunteered to share information about their health, lifestyle, environment, and behavior that will allow ... and the data can be used to conduct long-term population health studies. The BC Generations Project, one of five ... British Columbians this year. Participants can be in good health, or have health problems or disabilities—the goal is ...
News September 2015
The 2015 winners of the Excellence in Health award are a Kelowna-based nonprofit that is teaching ... water safety and a Victoria clinic providing women’s health care services to its local community. The award is ... creativity and ingenuity to improve and protect the health and safety of British Columbians, and results that ...
News September 2015
... to Africa with her mother as a Canada-Africa Community Health volunteer. Ms Phillips will be attending Queen’s ...
News September 2015
... the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute will build on their previous work, ... research teams working out of a number of universities and health care institutions across Canada also received the ...
News September 2015
... flood, or other disaster damages your business premises. Health and dental benefits for employees It is very common for physicians to carry health and dental policies for themselves, and to own the policies through their corporation, since health and dental plan premiums are tax deductible. A caveat ...
News / BY: Andrew Guy, September 2015
... attending music festivals.[ 2,3 ] Mass gatherings require health and medical services, harm-reduction strategies, ... city, or nation hosting the event.[ 4 ] Mass-gathering health is a young and rapidly evolving discipline with ties to emergency medicine, disaster medicine, and public health. Much of the literature refers to mass-gathering ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB September 2015
To be effective leaders in health care we, as doctors, must ensure that we lead the ... contract negotiations, and ensuring effective influence in health care policy, among many other duties. The large Board ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD September 2015
... That commission spent 3 years examining compulsory state health insurance and recommended in 1922 that there should be ... public opinion and business sentiment were in favor of health insurance, government would eventually want to bring ... In 1961, following the establishment of a government health care program in Saskatchewan, the Canadian Medical ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Colin Harris, MSN, BSc (Crim), RN, AFN-BC, F-ABMDI, September 2015
... nurse and medicolegal death investigator with occupational health and safety training. As is necessary with criminal ... which contributes to enforcement of occupational health and safety requirements and the direction of ...