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Clinical Articles / BY: Rebecca Warburton, MD, FRCSC March 2018
... cancer conferences are routine at each of the six BC Cancer centres. Referral to BC Cancer for preoperative assessment is welcome, ... but in some circumstances patients not yet referred to BC Cancer may be discussed at these conferences after direct ...
Letters / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD January/February 2018
... A while back the Society of General Practitioners of BC asked the Medical Services Commission (MSC) to approve a ...
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 ... in 20 studies.[ 1 ] The main difference for the BC program will be the schedule of immunization: for RotaTeq, ...
News July/August 2018
Doctors of BC members attended the 2018 annual general meeting on 2 June ... day started with the SGP AGM, followed by the Doctors of BC AGM with an address by the CMA past president, Dr Granger ... commenced with a reception, followed by the Doctors of BC annual awards ceremony, including installation of ...
Obituaries / BY: Annie Davison September 2018
... He subsequently became a professor of pediatrics at BC Children’s Hospital. There he established the Division ...
Letters / BY: Geoffrey Ainsworth, MD December 2018
... dismayed to read the results of a survey on the Doctors of BC website reporting on a survey of doctors, “Transparency ... to physicians.” Out of over 10 000 physicians in BC, 532 responded, so the only meaningful conclusion that can be drawn is: 5% of physicians in BC have these views on drug payments. We have no idea what ...
News March 2018
The new Urgent Care Centre at BC Women’s Hospital is the only one of its kind in Canada ... who arrive for triage, assessment, and admissions to BC Women’s Hospital. The new facility provides care to ... gift from the Lalji family. News New Urgent Care Centre at BC Women’s Hospital ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG April 2018
... facilities at the Narcotic Addiction Foundation of BC should be expanded to include subclinics in the four major ... provide some, but it primarily provided a community for BC physicians—a place to share experiences in a collegial ...