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President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD January/February 2018
... on the options for improving delivery of medical care in BC. For the gardeners among us, it is time to plant the seeds ... in common.” Both concepts are integral to the work in BC around networks of care. Networks are developing in ... deliver comprehensive quality medical care to patients in BC with limited resources and capacity to accomplish this ...
Obituaries / BY: Donald R. Hilton, MD, FRCPC January/February 2018
... of Medicine. In 1977 the family moved to Thetis Island, BC, and Alice joined the Cowichan medical community as its ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... turn to me. “Eric, aren’t you involved with Doctors of BC? What’s going on to help us?” I say that they’re ... here and I’m listening. —Eric Cadesky, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment The one thing is ...
Letters / BY: Evert Tuyp, MD, FRCPC June 2018
The BC Medical Journal is allowing questionable self-promotion by ... issue, the BCMJ printed news that “Three BC physicians earn board certification in lifestyle ... Obesity Medicine. The BCMJ does not publish the names of BC physicians who have achieved their CCFP or FRCPC/FRCSC. ...
Letters / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC June 2018
... altruism has also resulted in an increased interest among BC residents in organ donation, and that will help save lives ...
News June 2018
... Ross has been elected president-elect of Doctors of BC, and will serve as the association’s president in ...
News / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH June 2018
... a crucial component in preventing active TB disease. In BC, while treatment for LTBI is voluntary, an emphasis is ... those taking high doses of immune suppressive therapy. In BC, standard first-line treatment for LTBI has focused on 300 ... LTBI will now be used as a first-line treatment regimen in BC.  A third regimen option for LTBI is a combination of ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2018
... reviewer for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. This jazz-playing animal-lover has a special interest in ...
News June 2018
BC Cancer and its Laboratory Services have identified an ... they would have had a borderline negative result.  BC Cancer, Laboratory Services, and the Ministry of Health ... For more information on the colon screening program, visit BC Cancer’s screening website at www.screeningbc.ca . News ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD June 2018
... aligns with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s standards and guidelines for safe prescribing of ...