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Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB July/August 2017
... to attend London’s prestigious 400-year-old Guy’s Hospital Medical School.  In the 1950s London was a great ... to India I met Dr Norman Rigby in July 1970 when my wife and I arrived in New Westminster to start a ... the Medical Education Department was evident. In some ways my journey in medicine was influenced by the contribution and ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2017
... of the province. We need better system coordination. . . . My intent this year is to make Doctors of BC more accessible ... communities, and our patients. Respect for the profession My third priority is the value and respect for the profession ... became the director of laboratories at the Royal Columbian Hospital in January 1958, where he developed a unique health ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD September 2017
... have worked in medical offices, the emergency department, hospital wards, and in medical administration. In each of ... wisdom, enthusiasm, or something else?  Before I share my opinion of what I really value in my colleagues, let’s consider the responses to that ...
Obituaries / BY: Nis Schmidt, MD September 2017
... he was accepted into an internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. Not unlike many medical doctors, ... available to replace conventional X-ray imaging. The hospital was not happy to fund this new and expensive ... of surgical stomas and difficult wound care. Over my many years of association with Ken—in our work, our ...
Premise / BY: Paul Winston, MD, FRCPC September 2017
... It is rare to see long-term treatment with narcotics on hospital inpatient wards. Patients with shattered limbs, ... cannot be stopped, coping strategies are suggested.  In my experience and that of my physical medicine and rehabilitation peers, rehabilitation ...
Letters / BY: Laurence W. Lee, MD, FRCPC October 2017
... concise oasis of information in the illegible chaos of a hospital chart. Ironically, the technology has long existed ... more health care. I could not identify any route to voice my concerns. I count the biggest failure in my career as being unable to bring user-friendly medical ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS October 2017
... a man with suspected aortic dissection to our tertiary hospital on 9 August with a full consult letter the same day ... practice for patient safety. The patients present back to my practice during the week, and I have no idea what the ... transcription takes a week. These timelines are typical in my experience. I wondered if any standards were set for ...
Obituaries / BY: Bill Mackie, MD October 2017
... escaped to London, England, where he worked at Middlesex Hospital stoking a coal furnace and learning enough English ... Ivan immigrated to Canada, where he worked at Ottawa Civic Hospital. He eventually moved to BC to become a surgeon in ... 2011. Ivan loved to compete and to help others compete—my family members would advise me to not race Ivan as he was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2017
... medical practice. It was what I had expected from my training as a physician and what I thought physicians were ... that I realized I wasn’t going to be able to keep up my fast pace, physicians were being encouraged to switch to ... asked if I had a record of his last tetanus shot. At the hospital he had been asked about this. He thought it was at ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB November 2017
As I put my thoughts down in writing, the seasons are changing and ... have suddenly disappeared from the corridors of our hospital. While allegations of misconduct made against them ... I may sound like a fan of theirs, but I like to keep my distance from the College as much as the rest of you. I ...