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News&Notes December 2017
... Fraser Lake is located near the geo­graphic centre of BC. It is a dot along Highway 16 that meanders from Prince ... km away at the newly named University Hospital of Northern BC in Prince George. In 2002 Fraser Lake developed a rural ... put forth to the multiple players in diagnostic imaging in BC. This was a co­operative venture between the au­thor and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM December 2017
... HIV p24 antigen/antibody assays, which are used throughout BC for HIV screening, detect infections about 4 to 5 days ... or indeterminate immunoblot results.  Since 2009, the BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory (BCCDC ... most of the HIV screening and confirmatory testing in BC, has also been using pooled HIV RNA nucleic acid testing ...
Billing Tips / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD December 2017
... refer to the MSC Payment Schedule (or the Doctors of BC Guide to Fees ) and its Preamble for interpretation of all ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2017
... until I finished university and then came back to BC with a bachelor of arts degree in zoology from UC ... for teenage moms. During that year I visited my family in BC and applied to grad school at UBC on a whim. When I learned that I was accepted I moved back to BC to do a master’s degree in genetics and worked as a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and the BC Ministry of Health, with additional support provided by ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Damon Ramsey, MD December 2017
... facilitated through government incentive programs such as BC’s Physician Information Technology Office (PITO) have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bidu, MBA December 2017
... In the entrepreneurial world, we call this building BC’s digital health ecosystem. So what exactly does ... in transforming our health care system?  For doctors in BC to continue delivering high-quality care and achieve ... technology presents, and the current state of BC’s digital health ecosystem.  The face of change   ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD December 2017
... and the coming year. —Trina Larsen Soles, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment The ghosts of Christmas past ...
Premise / BY: Andrew Kotaska, MD December 2017
... care in the province.[ 1-3 ] Dr Brian Day’s recent BC Supreme Court challenge seeks to do the same in the rest ... 47% of knee replacements and 61% of hip replacements in BC in 2015 met the benchmark wait times of 6 months.[ 4 ] ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2017
... other physician who has made such diverse contributions to BC and Canada. Dr McGeer is a native Vancouverite and one of ... There he met Edith and they married before returning to BC. Recognizing the potential growth and opportunities ... He won a seat as a member of the Liberal Party of BC, continuing to hold office (later as a Social Credit ...