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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2018
Beginning April 2018, BC and other Canadian provinces and territories will begin to ... (RV1, ROTARIX, GlaxoSmithKline), which has been used in BC since the program started in January 2012. This change is ... Programs and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Service BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD May 2018
... Division of Family Practice and the Rural Coordinating Centre of BC, both of which are funded through Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health. Several ongoing projects arose ...
News May 2018
Doctors of BC members are invited to attend the 2018 annual general ... meeting (AGM) on 2 June 2018 at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre (UBC Campus, 6163 University Blvd., Vancouver). Onsite ... at 5:15 p.m. with a reception, followed by the Doctors of BC annual awards ceremony at 6:00 p.m., including ...
Editorials / BY: Sharadh Sampath, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... Columbia. When the surgery is done in a high-volume centre with today’s surgical techniques, patients rarely ... of Surgery, University of British Columbia  President, BC Obesity Society Editorials Guest editorial: A ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB July/August 2018
In a recent proclamation of Family Doctor Day, the BC government states that family physicians lead the delivery ... ). In another breath, the BC government’s lawyers (in the ongoing constitutional challenge launched by the Cambie Surgery Centre, et al., against the BC Ministry of Health, et al.) ...
Letters / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2018
... more efficacious than surgery. The medical profession in BC has made requests to the Minister of Health to consider ... First agenda, there was no concern for residents of BC who could not start a family. While the current NDP ... —Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC Co-Director at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine —Jon Havelock, MD ...
News July/August 2018
Doctors of BC members attended the 2018 annual general meeting on 2 June 2018 at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre on the UBC campus. The day started with the SGP AGM, followed by the Doctors of BC AGM with an address by the CMA past president, Dr Granger ...
News July/August 2018
Each year Doctors of BC presents two scholarships to children of Doctors of BC members who display outstanding scholastic achievement, ... about the award, visit www.doctorsofbc.ca/resource-centre/awards-scholarships/doctors-bc-scholarship-awards . ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM July/August 2018
... genotype from HA-MRSA—have increased dramatically in BC.[ 1 , 2 , 3 ] Recent annual surveillance data indicate that CA-MRSA accounted for about 25% of MRSA in BC, with the remainder mostly HA-MRSA.[ 2 ] Therefore, ... communication with D.M. Patrick and L.M. Hoang, BC Centre for Disease Control, 2 February 2018). Known ...
Obituaries / BY: William G. Johnston, MB, FRCS July/August 2018
... In 1979, Katie moved with her family to Chilliwack, BC, and soon after she gave birth to her second son, Edward. ... was also proud of Netcare, a multidisciplinary day-care centre for the elderly that she helped to establish. Katie ...