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Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD May 2003
... and Surgeons of British Columbia reminding these doctors about their responsibilities. At the time I found ... job to act as the conscience for 8000 diverse and unruly doctors, and obviously one would not like the government to ... welcome an independent body to look at health care in BC with respect to resources, waitlists, and outcomes. ...
Letters / BY: Alexander Boggie, MD April 2003
In the mid-50s, when some of us were training to become doctors, we were often told that one of our roles in ... to balance their books on the backs of the patients in BC. Many doctors have already raised their voices in protest and have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC January/February 2003
... The first clinic in Dease Lake, a joint project of the BC government and the BC College of Family Physicians, opened ... in 1981–82. I became part of a regular rota of family doctors who went up for a month every year or so. By the time ... the clinic during the next day. The full complement is two doctors and two nurses—Utopia! General problems Medivacs In ...
Letters / BY: M.M. Moran, MB May 2003
... since 1981 or 1982 she has been part of a rota of family doctors who went north for a month every year or so. I really ... such as Dease Lake. Unfortunately, I believe that the BC Medical Association has the same understanding of the ... rural, and isolated area such as Prince George. If the  BC Medical Journal  invites articles such as this, perhaps ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD December 2003
... articulated political “need” to gain control over doctors and the services they provide. This is not only evident in Quebec; the BC government recently gave notice that it intended to amend ... Health Practitioners Act in order to wrestle control of BC doctors’ professional conduct from the BC College of ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD May 2003
... cessation. She was surprised (as was I, when I arrived in BC) to find that an MSP fee is not payable for lifestyle ... then-minister wrote me a nice letter, explaining that in BC there existed an extensive public health and education ... could and should attend there for lifestyle advice, whilst doctors got on with doctoring. Since arriving in BC my health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... We have previously reported 1996 rectal cancer outcomes in BC. [1]  We found that survival and recurrence rates were ... rectal cancer according to the guidelines written by the BC Cancer Agency. Methods We conducted a retrospective review ... data were obtained from a questionnaire sent to family doctors and surgeons identified from Cancer Registry records. ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2003
... provided by the on-call agreement between the BCMA and the BC Ministry of Health (MOH).  It turns out that the actual ... In essence, it was agreed that on-call should be paid to doctors providing on-call for institutions or for those health regions that require doctors to be on call for some of these larger, sparsely ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD October 2003
... plan is designed and the therapeutics initiated and the doctors have moved on to the next complex problem, there is ... and properly funded. This assumption was based on the BC government’s claim that the “Closer to Home” ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2002
... Report virtually in its entirety as quickly as possible. BC, Ontario, and Quebec all sound like they are considering ... others). About 4 years ago I wrote on these pages that the BC government and the BCMA should discuss the possibility of ... payment plan that paid about half the province’s doctors by salary and half (if they desired) by fee for ...