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Physician Spotlight / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD October 2018
... Rae In the 30-plus years that I spent at St. Paul’s Hospital I must have gone to more than a thousand medical ... grand rounds; fewer than a handful of them stand out in my memory. One that does was given by the remarkable man who ... trigger his interest in kidneys. Dr Rae entered the London Hospital Medical School (now the Royal) in 1947 at age 18. Of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Justin Burton, MSc, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 January/February 2018
... Things are not always what they seem. This summarizes my daily experiences in the Peruvian Amazon for a rural ... are offered. Although the infrastructure is basic, the hospital staff and the services they provide are certainly not. During my time at the CSSC I came to appreciate the breadth of ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD May 2018
... by either ground or air ambulance to a tertiary care hospital, and this is where we run into trouble. Identifying ... system. But it still takes too long to find an accepting hospital, delaying transfers in a dangerous way. The second ... time for all citizens in British Columbia. As this is my last BCMJ President’s Comment, I want to say that the ...
Editorials / BY: Sharadh Sampath, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... received a single 30-minute lecture on the subject during my entire 6-year general surgery residency. During residency, ... Association in 2015. It is ubiquitous and epidemic and, in my opinion, the mother of many other diseases. What is ... MD, FRCSC  Head, Division of General Surgery, Richmond Hospital Director, Richmond Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery ...
Obituaries / BY: Nis Schmidt, MD September 2017
... he was accepted into an internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. Not unlike many medical doctors, ... available to replace conventional X-ray imaging. The hospital was not happy to fund this new and expensive ... of surgical stomas and difficult wound care. Over my many years of association with Ken—in our work, our ...
Premise / BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP March 2017
... in a rural setting. To these concerns I would add my own about the additional administrative burdens placed on ... a new request, each with its own peculiarities. At one hospital I needed to provide all of the licensing information ... a set of portable privileges that can be transferred from hospital to hospital, lasting for at least 1 year to minimize ...
Obituaries / BY: Bill Mackie, MD October 2017
... escaped to London, England, where he worked at Middlesex Hospital stoking a coal furnace and learning enough English ... Ivan immigrated to Canada, where he worked at Ottawa Civic Hospital. He eventually moved to BC to become a surgeon in ... 2011. Ivan loved to compete and to help others compete—my family members would advise me to not race Ivan as he was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... to follow up with you 1 week after being discharged from hospital, where she was admitted for 9 days following a hip ... questions regarding the management of osteoporosis. Should my patient take calcium and vitamin D?  The first step ... limited to those with vitamin D deficiency.[ 17 ] Should my patient take a drug holiday after a certain period of ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2017
... of the province. We need better system coordination. . . . My intent this year is to make Doctors of BC more accessible ... communities, and our patients. Respect for the profession My third priority is the value and respect for the profession ... became the director of laboratories at the Royal Columbian Hospital in January 1958, where he developed a unique health ...
Letters / BY: Laurence W. Lee, MD, FRCPC October 2017
... concise oasis of information in the illegible chaos of a hospital chart. Ironically, the technology has long existed ... more health care. I could not identify any route to voice my concerns. I count the biggest failure in my career as being unable to bring user-friendly medical ...