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WorkSafeBC / BY: Greg Meloche, PhD, RPsych September 2017
... 2017 Location: Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, Vancouver, BC Information and registration details at ...
Editorials / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP December 2017
... clinician productivity. Finally, Mr Michael Bidu considers BC’s digital health ecosystem and the importance of ... health, Part 2: The promise and practice of telehealth in BC ...
News&Notes December 2017
... Fraser Lake is located near the geo­graphic centre of BC. It is a dot along Highway 16 that meanders from Prince ... km away at the newly named University Hospital of Northern BC in Prince George. In 2002 Fraser Lake developed a rural ... put forth to the multiple players in diagnostic imaging in BC. This was a co­operative venture between the au­thor and ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2017
... to be set aside for this. As a side note, apparently, BC Women’s and Royal Columbian Hospitals have facilities on ...
News May 2017
... & Drugs resource is now available in an online format for BC users at www.bugsanddrugs.org . The website is accessible only to IP addresses from within BC.  Bugs & Drugs is the recommended reference for ... by the Do Bugs Need Drugs? program and is funded in BC by the BC Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Services ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD July/August 2017
... Experiences (ACEs) workshop, put on by Doctors of BC’s Shared Care Committee. It was exciting and extremely ... could be incorporated into primary and maternity care in BC—how our profession and our patients could benefit from ... developing programs that work.   Why does this matter in BC? Because as we develop the practical aspects of patient ...
Obituaries / BY: Bill Mackie, MD October 2017
... he worked at Ottawa Civic Hospital. He eventually moved to BC to become a surgeon in Trail (where he also coached the ... for Nuclear Medicine. He was a proud member of Doctors of BC and acted as guest editor for the December 1987 issue of  BC Medical Journal . In 2012, he was awarded the CMA Senior ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM December 2017
... HIV p24 antigen/antibody assays, which are used throughout BC for HIV screening, detect infections about 4 to 5 days ... or indeterminate immunoblot results.  Since 2009, the BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory (BCCDC ... most of the HIV screening and confirmatory testing in BC, has also been using pooled HIV RNA nucleic acid testing ...
Letters / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC January/February 2017
The BC Centre for Disease Control article by Dr David Patrick and ... Laboratory Medicine UBC Faculty of Medicine Letters Re: BC physicians reduce unnecessary antibiotic use—and costs ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Lai, MD, FRCPC April 2017
... can be difficult.  A study published in the  BC Medical Journal  in 2014 surveyed family physicians in ... for deprescribing Less than half of physicians surveyed in BC reported that they use a consistent approach to reducing ...