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Letters / BY: Faye MacKay, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2025
... and have worked in many provinces. I have long admired BC for its progressive steps in ensuring excellence in ... one of which was the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s Library. I used it frequently. There was and still is ... and provide better care and a huge step backward for BC health care. I would have happily paid more to keep it ...
News October 2025
Doctors of BC’s biennial Health Authority Engagement Survey is open ... challenges remain, and what changes they want to see. As BC physicians continue to face a system in crisis, this feedback will help guide Doctors of BC’s advocacy efforts to shape a more resilient health care ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM April 2025
... or to a physicians’ meeting in your region anywhere in BC. We will contact your clinic coordinator prior to the ...
Obituaries / BY: Gaylene Vickery June 2025
... Germany. In April 1953, they immigrated to Prince Rupert, BC, and a year later, Kurt moved to Vancouver to pursue his ...
Obituaries / BY: Al Kallas, MD March 2024
... and adventures, often involving the BCMA (now Doctors of BC). Jim was also on the board of Pacific Blue Cross and was ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2024
... causes of road crashes. This goal has been endorsed by BC’s Office of the Provincial Health Officer, which has ... governments has been promising: over 60 municipalities in BC have lowered speed limits from the standard 50 km/h to 30 ... carries an estimated cost of $492 million per year in BC;[ 1 ] the human cost of lives lost and altered cannot be ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Natasha Benson, MD, FRCPC September 2024
... 2022, reproductive infectious diseases specialists at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre cared for women with possible cytomegalovirus during pregnancy in a BC Women’s physician-only clinic. Infants diagnosed with ... specialists (and other specialists where needed) at BC Children’s Hospital. Despite being situated on the same ...
Letters / BY: Liz Ewart, MD, FCFP November 2024
... times for breast cancer patients at a regional hospital in BC, 2013 versus 2023” [ BCMJ 2024;66:240-247], Hwang and ... administered by our local health authority rather than by BC Cancer. We therefore lack the resources and supports that the regional BC Cancer centres have, and this has negatively impacted ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... British Columbia.[ 1 ] Data from 2011 indicated that, in BC, women who resided more than 1 hour from a hospital that ... have a long history of providing surgical care in rural BC. In 2007, the enhanced surgical skills and obstetrical ... current volume and distribution of surgical care in rural BC.[ 2-5 , 7 ] To address this knowledge gap, we conducted an ...
Letters / BY: Lisa Veres, MD April 2024
... given us hope, and my colleagues and I are working with BC’s Digital Health Strategy to create a provincial system ... I imagine there are many collaborative projects around BC that can now be dusted off, revitalized, and hopefully ...