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News May 2017
... telephone consultations available for more urgent 8-1-1 calls. Dr Grafstein wanted to determine if adding a ... urgent calls (considered red calls by the HealthLink BC 8-1-1 line) that ended up in the emergency department.  The ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... Kalanithi in his bestseller,  When Breath Becomes Air .[ 1 ] His story holds our attention not only because it is ... back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.[ 1 ] Dr Kalanithi’s intimate and poignant account of facing ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS May 2017
... and health care in BC. That is the reality about a 1-year term. You realize you can’t make all the progress you advocated for in just 1 year, and, at the end of the day, that it’s about the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Colin Jackson, MD, FRCSC May 2017
... A  Canadian Medical Association Journal  article[ 1 ] notes that almost all primary care physicians experience ... confidential assistance through their 24-hour number at 1 800 663-6729, or visit www.physicianhealth.com . Review the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Reid, BSc, BN June 2017
... third leading cause of mortality from cancer in women.[ 1 ] Esophageal and gastric cancers are less prevalent, but ... 5-year survival rates at 14% and 25% respectively.[ 1 ] Targets for endoscopy Patient satisfaction is an ... similar, RACE patients were significantly older ( Table 1 ). Comparing outpatients in the two groups showed the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD June 2017
... the patient and provider are separated by distance.”[ 1 ] Although telemedicine has existed for decades, it has ... for telemedicine users in 29 BC regional districts ( Table 1 ). The number of users increased from 8282 in the first ... for a total of 25 431 users in a 2-year period ( Figure 1 ). The total number of consultations was 79 576, and the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM June 2017
... 2017 a total of 1965 cases have been reported this year.[ 1 ] In 2016 and 2017 there have been reported mumps outbreaks ... in Fraser Health and spread to two other regions. From 1 April to 31 October, 139 confirmed mumps cases were ...
Billing Tips / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD June 2017
... Doctors of BC to all physicians who have billed at least 1 year of FFS earnings to MSP. The profile gives you ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
Over 1 in 10 households in BC are food insecure, and approximately 1 in 6 children under the age of 18 lives in a food-insecure household.[ 1 ] Food insecurity is not caused by a lack of budgeting, ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD June 2017
... The current vacancy rate in Kamloops is approximately 1%, and the average rent for a one-bedroom suite is ...