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WorkSafeBC /
BY: Colin Jackson, MD, FRCSC
May 2017
... violence is one of the risks that come with working in health care. Physicians who work in environments where ... increase with the growing number of patients with mental health and substance abuse problems. The physical and ... to physicians and preferably be CME-accredited. Some health authorities offer this training. To help limit risk, ...
News
June 2017
... collaboration between Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health, is an advisory committee to the Medical Services ... and palliative care. BC Guidelines are widely used by BC health care practitioners, including physicians, nurse ...
Obituaries /
BY: Dan McCarthy, MD
September 2017
... centre of patient care, in concert with the Ministry of Health, health authorities, our clinical colleagues, and most ... modesty even when in his Maserati. He helped to change health care from a battlefield to one of collaboration based ...
Premise /
BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd
November 2017
... We have to do it ourselves.” The motto “There is no health without mental health” is also relevant at Super 30. Going to the movies ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC
March 2017
... can be seen in continence clinics staffed by a variety of health professionals skilled in providing evidence-based care ... includes a review of physical, psychological, and social health. Functional status, quality of life, and goals of care ... a pelvic floor physiotherapist, a geriatrician, and other health professionals skilled in the assessment, diagnosis, ...
President's Comment /
BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS
April 2017
... You’ll also find that over half of Canadians feel our health care system needs fundamental change. I fully agree. ... It needs to include patients and the other necessary health care partners, and it urgently needs to be influenced ... as EMR adoption and in finding innovative solutions to our health care challenges in such areas as primary care and ...
News
July/August 2017
... were honored for contributions that elevated the health and well-being of their respective communities. Dr ... The North Peace Division of Family Practice/Northern Health/the City of Fort St. John were joint recipients of the ... This group of physicians, local government officials, and health authority representatives developed strategies to ...
Premise /
BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP
March 2017
... for exhaustive resubmission of documentation to multiple health authorities and, separately, to the College. There is ... provincial mandate of privileging, communication between health authorities is apparently nonexistent. Woe betide the ... locum who would choose to work in both Merritt (Interior Health) and Hope (Fraser Health), for this necessitates ...
News
May 2017
... medical centre will be a purpose-built, fully integrated health campus, comprising the 18.4-acre site on Station ... Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and other centres of excellence in health care and research; primary care and specialized ...