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Obituaries / BY: Elspeth M. McDougall, MD, FRCSC, MHPE, December 2016
... medical services of the Workers’ Compensation Board of BC from 1981–1988. Dr McDougall was active in the College ... the CFPC fellowship designation. He was president of the BC chapter of the CFPC from 1970 to 1971. Following his ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi May 2016
... box below for the complete list of Fetch databases across BC.) The initial funding for Nanaimo’s Fetch database was ... complete list of live links to Fetch databases throughout BC, visit  www.divisionsbc.ca/provincial/fetch .  ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC May 2016
... a dramatic change in the way surgical care is provided in BC” was not furthered with examples of these dramatic ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Will Offley, RN December 2016
... are kept on nosocomial influenza infections. The BC Centre for Disease Control has acknowledged that it does ... reporting)” (electronic communication from Lisa Kwindt, BC Centre for Disease Control, 11 January 2016). Nor does the ... For example, in the Ontario arbitration, Dr Bonnie Henry, BC’s deputy provincial health officer, while defending ...
Letters / BY: Michael Stanger, MD, May 2016
... of the surgery. If this methodology was adopted in BC it would change the way surgical care is provided in the ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC December 2016
The BC health care worker influenza protection policy is an ... is supported by the majority of health care workers in BC, according to a recent survey, and has been upheld as reasonable at arbitration in BC.[ 1 ] The policy is, in fact, predicated on several ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... better identify and support these individuals, Doctors of BC has developed a physician tool kit that provides practical ... The tool kit accompanies our recently released Doctors of BC policy paper, Circle of Care: Supporting Family Caregivers in BC, which includes a number of commitments and ...
Letters / BY: Ronald Cridland, MD May 2016
... of chronic diseases in Canada any time soon. If Doctors of BC is interested in patients as much as doctors, they would ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Valerie Tregillus, BA, December 2016
... ER physicians, and general psychiatrists, but many BC physicians feel they lack sufficient training and ... new online enhanced learning series of modules to support BC physicians in the delivery of evidence-based assessment, ... with mental health disorders. The series was developed by BC Children’s Hospital Mental Health and Substance Use ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Kelly Mayson, MD, FRCPC December 2016
The BC Enhanced Recovery Collaborative (the Collaborative) was a ... a partnership of the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. Translating evidence-based medicine into processes of ... guidance notes have been reviewed and shared with the BC Anesthesiologists Society and the multidisciplinary ...