Letters /
BY: John Walton, MD
June 2017
... , 147 ] bring to the fore the perilous state of general practice in BC. Congratulations to Dr Brown for having the ... for the demise of these clinics. The section of general practice could never negotiate a fee schedule that would ...
Letters /
BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD
June 2017
... document should be strengthened to a legally enforceable practice standard, similar to the directive recently issued[ ... consultation, which aims to strengthen the collaborative practice approach that is so essential in patient care. ...
News
June 2017
... as BC Guidelines—concise, user-friendly clinical practice guidelines with a focus on key therapeutic and ...
Obituaries /
BY: G.B. Gowd, FRCSC
June 2017
... of British Columbia. Raj soon decided to expand his practice into the community, opening a private medical ... Interior each Friday evening after a week of full days of practice in Vancouver and returning on Sunday night to resume ... day or night, for many long years. To manage his vast practice he eventually required two full-time ...
President's Comment /
BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD
June 2017
... a major transition in my life as I move from clinical practice into 12 months acting as the spokesperson for our ... unintentional involvement in local medical politics. Rural practice is a great crucible for developing leadership ... levels. It turns out the working environment in my rural practice is directly affected by the function of the ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Elliott Weiss, MD, FRCPC, MBA
June 2017
... allow for maximization of activities. Fundamental to the practice of physical medicine and rehabilitation is reducing ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC
July/August 2017
... be passed. As a result of this committee’s work, the practice standards for all college registrants in BC are ... a physician with a large number of elderly patients in his practice, has provided medically assisted death for three of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Alexa R.Y. Dang, BSc
July/August 2017
... have a health care professional familiar with oncological practice available for consultation or a link on the BCCA ...
College Library /
BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS
July/August 2017
... point-of-care tools such as ClinicalKey and BMJ Best Practice, both available at ... up to 20 Mainpro+ self-learning credits for using BMJ Best Practice. Users may create a personal account in ClinicalKey and BMJ Best Practice for automatic activity tracking and generation of ...
Editorials /
BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG
July/August 2017
... It’s unsettling. This has ramifications for medical practice, of course. In all areas of medicine, we have to be ... came later. In two specific activities in medical practice, skilled communication is essential: first, when ... toward impersonal interactions will slowly infect medical practice as well, leading to our spoken interactions with ...