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News / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC September 2018
... service that has profoundly benefited the residents of BC as well as advanced the practice of medicine/surgery in ... chancellor. Dr Sheldon (Shelly) Naiman (1937–2016) – BC’s first clinical hematologist and first head of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tommy Gerschman, MD, FRCPC, MSc September 2018
... questions in the vital signs section of EMRs. Doctors of BC passed a similar resolution earlier this year. British ... self-reported meeting the national guidelines, whereas in BC that percentage was significantly higher, 64.9%.[ 2 ] These data are encouraging for BC, but because they come from a self-reported survey ...
News September 2018
... The J.H. MacDermot Writing Award, sponsored by Doctors of BC, honors Dr John Henry MacDermot, who served as editor for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc September 2018
... death among Canadians of all ages.[ 1 , 2 ] Every year in BC approximately 2000 deaths and 8000 cases of permanent ... the extent of the injury issue.[ 2 ] Injury costs in BC in 2010 amounted to $3.7 billion in both direct and ... was proposed to calculate the cost of treating injuries in BC, the impact of years of life lost to death or disability, ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Nancy Falconer, September 2018
Pregnant women in some BC communities can face fragmented and siloed perinatal care, ... work of the GPSC, the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, and Perinatal Services BC. Called the Maternity Network, the initiative aims to ...
Obituaries / BY: Annie Davison September 2018
... He subsequently became a professor of pediatrics at BC Children’s Hospital. There he established the Division ...
Obituaries / BY: Murray Peglar September 2018
... He attended Glenlyon Preparatory School in Victoria, BC, where he excelled at sports and studies, winning a 5-year ... Murray loved the romantic, Wild West cowboy history of BC. He often said that he must have been a cowboy in a ... Night Football. He was involved with Ducks Unlimited, the BC and Canadian Wildlife Federations, and the Steelhead ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Caddy, MD October 2018
... sharply rising number of deaths related to fentanyl led BC’s provincial health officer to declare an “opioid ... therapy for the management of opioid use disorder in BC.[ 2 ] Suboxone prescribing resource A resource designed to ... guideline. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC recommends completing an online Suboxone training program, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2018
... be the wholesale distributor of nonmedicinal cannabis in BC and will run the provincial cannabis retail stores. The ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB October 2018
... as “experts.” Government documents confirm that BC fails to meet its own maximum wait benchmarks—beyond ... legislation are not relevant.” They falsely accused BC clinics of “extra billing,” which the Canada Health ... from public health care insurance. Private clinics in BC don’t extra bill; public hospitals do. Even tax-funded ...