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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2016
... mayonii -like spirochetes have now also been discovered in BC—first detected in an Ixodes angustus female nymph that ... tick was removed from a child in the central Interior of BC in July 2016. The third infected tick was recovered from a ... DVM —Bonnie Henry, MD, FRCPC —Mel Krajden MD, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control A new Borrelia species ...
Obituaries / BY: Rob Arnold, MD, April 2016
... member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, and was a senior member of the CMA. Throughout his ...
Obituaries / BY: Kim Martin, MD, April 2016
... became head of perinatology and a senior administrator at BC Women’s Hospital. A desire to return to clinical ...
College Library / BY: Niki Baumann December 2016
... deal of news coverage of the current opioid crisis in BC. To assist in the response, the College’s Prescription ... links are not available, or if it is more convenient, BC physicians may request articles from the College library. ... not covered by the Safe Prescribing Recommended Resources, BC physicians may request literature searches from the ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB April 2016
... appointed by their Board of Directors. At the Doctors of BC Board meeting held in February, a new process was approved by which Doctors of BC nominees for CMA Board delegates will be selected. ... for CMA delegates have been recommended by the Doctors of BC Board. More recently the process changed and a call for ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Goetz, MD, FRCSC, April 2016
... and Innovation Committee, a joint committee of Doctors of BC and WorkSafeBC, is seeking proposals from the physician ... of Radiology, the Society of General Practitioners of BC, and WorkSafeBC to add an epidemiology statement as a ... project is currently being expanded to other regions in BC. Evaluation and implementation The committee evaluates all ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... in the basement.[ 5 ] Radon exposure and mitigation in BC In BC radon exposure is of particular concern east of the Coast ... to be over 200 Bq/m 3 and five were over 750 Bq/m 3 .[ 7 ] BC has taken steps to reduce radon exposure. In late 2014, ...
Letters / BY: D.S. Dhanda, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... mission statement the focus on physicians, being “by BC physicians, for BC physicians.” Optometrists are not physicians. Do you ... a matter of course. —D.S. Dhanda, MD, FRCSC President, BC Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons Potential ...
Letters / BY: Michael M. O’Brien December 2016
... as was pointed out by a previous president of Doctors of BC; administrators being not well-informed administrators and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darren E.R. Warburton, PhD May 2016
... of physical activity The death of Pheidippides in 490 BC may be the first widely reported case of exercise-related ...