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President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD March 2005
... proportions. Access issues between specialists and family doctors seems to be a two-way dead-end street—GPs are ... concerns in front of your MLA. I strongly encourage all BC physicians to review the election guide and become as well ... Burak, MD BCMA President President's Comment Election BC--Make your voice heard ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2005
... production online. We were a little surprised that so few doctors want to read the  BCMJ  online given that the percentage of homes in BC with at least one PC is the highest in Canada. Perhaps our ... quite small, and I suspect that our current group of doctors just prefers to read a proper magazine and not a ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD January/February 2005
This year is an important year for all BC physicians. In the fall of 2005 we will begin negotiations ... sole right to bargain with the government on behalf of BC doctors. This ensures that no government can divide and ... we owe this to our patients, who depend on their doctors to speak for them and ensure that our health care ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD November 2005
... (an e-mail discussion group) made mention of the  BC Medical Journal  and the members of its Editorial Board. ... clear over the years that it is a publication for BC’s doctors by BC’s doctors. We have stated in numerous editorials that the ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
BC Medical Journal: Can you tell me about one of your career ... hope that there could be room for hospitalists and family doctors within our hospitals. For those physicians who choose ... the first adopters of pagers because they worked, allowing doctors to stay in contact with their patients when they ...
Premise / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) June 2005
The expansion of BC’s medical program is the first in a series of steps we ... In June 2000, approximately 7000 residents of northern BC came together at an arena in Prince George to protest ... in terms of helping the burden of illness and the types of doctors it needs is generalists in the broadest sense of the ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2004
BC Medical Journal : What gives you the most professional ... trying to improve the fee schedule in areas that reward doctors who are doing full-service family practice ... there was fairness. Second, I feel very strongly that doctors must have a strong leadership role in our health care ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2004
... ) the BCMJ may have done a disservice to the doctors of BC. The author goes on to describe in detail the shortcomings ...
Editorials / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2004
Within the lifetime of many doctors in this province and within the professional lives of ... opportunistic infections such as cytomegalovirus. In BC and the rest of Canada, patients and physicians alike can ... for good long-term outcomes. [3]  To date, no one in BC with HIV has received a transplant and only one patient ...
Letters / BY: Alastair S.E. Younger, MBChB, ChM, FRCSC December 2004
... Dr Alastair Younger 401–1160 Burrard Street Vancouver BC V6Z 3E8 Fax: (604) 683-3464 —Alastair Younger, MD ... and income tax deductions - An unfair judgment against doctors? ...