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President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... unpaid care to family members or friends with chronic health needs, illnesses, or disabilities. And while they are an integral part of our health care system, they often go unrecognized and unnoticed. ... caregivers, how we can make efforts to monitor their health, and how we can involve them appropriately in patient ...
Letters / BY: Ronald Cridland, MD May 2016
I commend Dr Ron Wilson for encouraging doctors to practise health promotion in his article “Chronic-disease rates cut ... from exam room to exam room putting out fires in the health of your patients and you think you don’t have time for this, think again! Just like health care costs are never going to come down, we are never ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Valerie Tregillus, BA, December 2016
Children and youth with mental health issues are increasingly being seen by GPs, ... consultation services for children and youth with mental health disorders. The series was developed by BC Children’s Hospital Mental Health and Substance Use Programs as part of the work of the ...
Letters / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP May 2016
... enough. I do believe that doctors are the most influential health professionals in our patients’ lives. To be ... patients to where they can get this help. The Strategic Health Alliance in Kamloops is an example of this. With a ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Kelly Mayson, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... initiative with representation from all regional health authorities that sought to implement several ... Services Committee, a partnership of the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. Translating evidence-based medicine ...
Letters / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, May 2016
... a TTR > 75%, simply because they are not funded by our BC health care system. So BC physicians, health care professionals, and patients do not have open ... as a consequence. It is also very costly for our health care system. If we adhere to the BC Guideline, as ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Hynes, BA, MBA, December 2016
... the amount and duration of compensation, the provision of health care benefits and services, and the consideration of ... •    Whether employers have violated the occupational health and safety provisions of the Act and regulations, and ... and a 45-day time limit to request reviews of occupational health and safety matters. Once a review has been requested, ...
Letters / BY: Vandad Yousefi, MD, CCFP, FHM, May 2016
... can no longer meet the needs of patients, physicians, and health care managers in a modern health system with unprecedented levels of complexity. The ... care models in which various physicians and other health care professionals can effectively look after patients ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD May 2016
... imbalance between the escalating workload in primary health care and the dwindling human-resource base available ...
News May 2016
... tattooing, but rather reuse of needles and syringes in health care settings before disposables became the uniform ...