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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? ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2004
... of Anahim Lake and Nimpo Lake. [10]  According to BC Vital Statistics, the average total population of LHA 49 ... Coola physicians who drive to Anahim Lake for a weekly doctors’ clinic. BC Vital Statistics routinely standardizes LHA data using the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Jarchow, MSW March 2004
... reports result in a child protection investigation. [4] In BC, child welfare definitions, reporting laws, and ... suspected cases of child maltreatment to authorities. In BC, the  Child, Family and Community Service Act  requires ... had slipped on the ice. Randal was treated and released. Doctors who later testified at the trial said such a fall ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC April 2004
... involved, the physician should initiate involvement. In BC, health care providers are required by law to report any ... cases may be managed very well by pediatricians or family doctors who have an established relationship with the family. ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2004
I just love living in BC. Besides all the obvious feel-good things we constantly hear trumpeted by the “Beautiful BC” people in the Ministry of Tourism, there is a constant ... move to shore up the government’s resolve to ensure that doctors will not be able to stare down government-appointed ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Shore, MD, CCFP March 2003
... my personal provision of care. Whereas the government of BC is looking with contempt at the doctors of BC in the form of breach of agreement and ... care to his or her patients. Whereas at my hospital the doctors no longer even have a secure place to hang their ...
Letters / BY: Kelly Silverthorn, MD January/February 2003
... into the delivery of care. Undoubtedly, many callback doctors will seek “deep cover” on principle; to deny the coverage that is not being funded. Other callback doctors will continue to put patient interests ahead of their ... imploring, even pleading, with the BCMA, the SSPS, and the BC College to be proactive and help avert the carnage. Each ...
Letters / BY: Erik T. Paterson, MD December 2003
... be striking. The reality is otherwise. For example, the doctors of Creston serve an area population of 15000 roughly, and we have 10.5 FTE doctors. The Interior Health Authority (IHA) states that the ... has lost 28 physicians to locales inside and outside of BC—ED.]. Creston is not alone with this picture. I am ...