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News December 2025
Dr Baldev Sanghera Doctors of BC members elected Dr Baldev Sanghera as the next ... Council of Canada. Dr Sanghera has been involved with Doctors of BC as a Representative Assembly delegate, vice ...
President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD December 2025
Dr Charlene Lui As my year as president of Doctors of BC concludes, I reflect with deep gratitude and humility. It ... colleagues from all parts of British Columbia—family doctors and specialists, rural physicians and urban ...
Premise / BY: Goldis Mitra, MD, CCFP April 2025
... of the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model in BC and significant investments in primary care by the ... problem. Quite simply, we don’t have enough family doctors to provide the increasingly complex care[ 4 ] that ... are a global issue: there are significant shortages of doctors, nurses, and key professionals in both high- and ...
President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD September 2025
... and support physicians on their reconciliation journey, Doctors of BC, in collaboration with the Joint Collaborative Committees, ... past and actively works to heal it. —Charlene Lui, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment Honoring truth ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Annukka K. Lindell, PhD March 2025
... However, unlike most of the population, portraits of doctors and scientists don’t show a left-cheek bias.[ 4,5 ] ... why would most people favor the left cheek, yet doctors appear unbiased? The answer may lie in the silent ... stem from an underlying motivation to communicate emotion. Doctors and scientists buck the trend Scientists and doctors ...
MDs To Be / BY: Taewoong Chae, MD September 2025
... with trust in the health care team, interaction between doctors and patients, and perceived empathy of care ... We conducted this quality improvement project at the BC Children’s Hospital Spinal Cord Clinic, a ... Clinic serves an average of 260 patients living across BC. The combination of significant geographic distances and a ...
Letters / BY: Marie Claire Bourque, MD, MSc, FRCPC, DABPN November 2025
... routinely don’t get paid for work we’ve done. In BC, the Medical Services Plan (MSP) often doesn’t pay. We ... Most businesses set payment terms and enforce them. But BC doctors? We’ve normalized dysfunction. Maybe because many ... in writing: your hospital is not responsible for helping doctors get paid. I, like you, should be getting paid for ...
News May 2025
... Standards Act to help ease the administrative burden on BC’s health care practitioners by clarifying when it is ... sick note. The regulations will deal with notes from doctors and nurse practitioners, and may also consider notes ... between providers. As a result of a partnership with Doctors of BC and Health Quality BC, changes are being ...
News / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2025
... advances a dangerous vision that, if realized, will see doctors drawn from the public system into a private one ... to challenge the restrictions on private care contained in BC’s Medicare Protection Act.     Cambie Surgeries ... Columbia was launched in 2009. Eleven years later the BC Supreme Court released its decision upholding the impugned ...
News January/February 2025
... in Medical Journalism (Independent), which recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in writing an ... of youth seeking mental health and substance use care in BC and has also worked with the Strategic Training ... $750 and recognition in the  BCMJ   and at the Doctors of BC annual awards ceremony. For more information ...