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Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2016
... naturalized or not, to prisoner-of-war camps in the BC Interior, and a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on these ... was licensed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. He opened an office in Vancouver and practised there ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc December 2016
... revision. —Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control Doxycycline: "New" treatment of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lisa Eunyoung Lee, January/February 2016
... NMOSD criteria can be used for children.[ 11 ] NMOSD in BC   A review of the UBC NMO database in 2014 found that 84 ... cases and 15 adult-onset NMOSD cases can be expected in BC annually. BC consists of an ethnically diverse population of more than ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2016
... specialty and requires hospital resources. In BC 65% of hospitals have an immediate need to recruit general ... well-being. Given the resource constraints in Canada and BC, increasing surgeon workload, and the need to recruit new ... the early 2000s at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC, to allow the resources for seven full-time-equivalents to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... per mile driven when compared with other drivers.[ 4 ] In BC, motor vehicle collisions are the primary cause of ... The introduction of a graduated licensing program (GLP) in BC in 1998 was a key intervention aimed at addressing ... of 0.05% for Class 5 drivers and 0.00% for GLP drivers, BC employs two types of sobriety checks: random breath ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD January/February 2016
... registrant with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. •    Have a practice that falls within the accepted ... rate derived from the hourly equivalent of the Doctors of BC sessional rate for GPs or specialists. Inspectors will ...
Letters / BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC January/February 2016
... 25 000 refugees from the ongoing civil war in Syria. BC is expecting to welcome up to 3500 by the end of February ... with individual sponsors, Immigrant Settlement Services of BC, or the Bridge Clinic in Vancouver to provide care or advice to these newcomers to BC. What these physicians will know is that every refugee ...
Letters / BY: Evert Tuyp, MD, FRCPC January/February 2016
In the October 2015 Pulsimeter item “BC at GC: Why care? (So long and thanks for the fish)” [ ... makes the following statement regarding the Doctors of BC delegation to the CMA General Council: “ongoing issues ... but act provincially. —Evert Tuyp, MD President, BC Section of Dermatology Letters Re: BC at GC: Why care? ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC January/February 2016
... you to Drs Kling, Galanis, Morshed, and Patrick of the BC Centre for Disease Control for providing some badly needed ...
Letters / BY: Ashley Roberts, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2016
... of influenza infection in children and pregnant women in BC, an update .”[ 1 ] His comment raises important ...