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President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD January/February 2018
... developing in different ways at many levels throughout our health care system.  We strive to deliver comprehensive ... solutions. One such network is the Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use (CYMHSU) Collaborative, supported by ... the lives of children, youth, and families with mental health and substance use issues in BC. To date, 64 local ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... we have—secure messaging, videoconferencing, patient health records—and the death of technologies we use like ...
News / BY: J. Stewart April 2018
... likely assumed as automatic. But according to the World Health Organization (WHO), that is not necessarily so.  In ... report on the mistreatment of women during childbirth in health facilities, childbearing women in BC have created a ... Hospital Foundation, and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research enabled Changing Childbirth in BC, a ...
News / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC September 2018
... Medical Staff Hall of Honour of Vancouver Coastal Health was created, with the approval of the hospital ... Confederation (2017). Although it is appreciated that all health care professionals at VGH and its allied institutions ... source of inspiration to physicians, surgeons, and allied health care professionals in the years to come. —Eric M. ...
Editorials / BY: Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC November 2018
... or obese.[ 1 ] DC estimates that the cost to the BC health care system of diabetes-related hospitalizations, ... doing about the present danger and anticipated tsunami of health care costs? The Diabetes Charter for Canada[ 7 ] has ... responsibilities for people living with diabetes, health care providers, and governments. The charter states ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert C. Mack, MD July/August 2018
... are less prone to error. It is understood that Interior Health is moving to the use of multi-dose packaging for these ... of this kind shows how an improvement in one area of health care can have unintended consequences in another area. ... to wastage, which include time spent by both pharmacy and health care staff dealing with medication returns, ...
Letters / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD October 2018
... you might read “A physician’s view of the future of health services” in the November 1967 issue, by one of our ...
News December 2018
... Centre on Substance Abuse, Dr Sutherland works with other health care professionals, coordinators, and external ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rebecca Warburton, MD, FRCSC March 2018
... underlying genetic risk, breast reconstruction, sexual health, and psychosocial issues common to young families and ... of meetings with surgeon representatives from all regional health authorities. ABSTRACT: Definitive treatment of breast ...
News January/February 2018
... among older adults who regularly or increasingly require health and social services, is recommended. However, routine ... and caregivers are referred to or connected with local health care and social services. •    Polypharmacy is ... patients who are 19 years and older, mainly in a primary health care setting. New BC Guidelines Mobile App To download ...