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President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... all deserve. —Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP Doctors of BC President President's Comment Innovation is everywhere. ...
Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD October 2018
... writers, editors, designers, and all others who create the BC Medical Journal ! This journal forms a common bond for the ... from medical history, and then focus your attention on BC’s medical history by Dr C.E. McDonnel—a series ... my faith in our ability to care for each other.” Dear BC Medical Journal , I thank you for triggering thoughts, ...
Letters / BY: Zafar Essak, MD October 2018
... debate.” Is such a cultural change needed at Doctors of BC? Is the failure to make the cultural change contributing to why Doctors of BC is having difficulty engaging members and other nonmember ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC October 2018
... safe disposal replaced the policy of needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject ... ] To enable safe disposal of used injection supplies, the BC harm reduction program provides personal sharps containers ... Physician Epidemiologist and Harm Reduction Lead, BCCDC BC Centre for Disease Control The physician’s role in harm ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Peter Thorpe, PGDip October 2018
... when a sudden cardiac arrest occurs in a public place in BC. BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) launched the free app in ... that anyone who may suffer a sudden cardiac arrest in BC now has an increased chance of survival. BC is the first ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD October 2018
... and sent home to do their own hemodialysis, the first in BC. By the end of the 1970s, the division had expanded to ... very successful, doubling the transplantation rate in BC in 3 months and tripling it in the first year. St. ... he offered to consult on patients in several towns across BC and in Whitehorse, Yukon, where there was no general ...
News October 2018
Researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Simon Fraser University, in partnership with the ... of Health. Dr Zabrina Brumme, Director, Laboratory with BC-CfE is lead author on the study. News BC researchers date ...
News October 2018
... do harm. Coauthored by researchers at SportsCardiologyBC, BC Children’s Hospital, and Weill Cornell Medical College ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP November 2018
... from the initiatives of other organizations, Doctors of BC will soon embark on consultation to support greater ... these consultations in newsletters, on the Doctors of BC website, and through social media. This will be neither ... and belonging is a feeling,”[ 5 ] then Doctors of BC is committed to model our motto and show that we are ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD November 2018
... Among the 298 people killed in motor vehicle incidents in BC in 2017, 163 were younger than age 50.[ 5 ] BC used to have speed enforcement by photo radar. Gordon ... Photo radar reduces speeding. I suggest that Doctors of BC recommend that the BC government bring back photo radar. ...